Poems Linking to Themes (Duffy and Larkin)

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  • Created by: Elmo
  • Created on: 30-06-17 17:36

Religion

Duffy

  • Brothers
  • Confession
  • Moments of Grace
  • Prayer

Larkin

  • An Arundel Tomb
  • Faith Healing
  • Water
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Meaning of Life

Duffy

  • The Grammar of Light
  • The Suicide

Larkin

  • First Sight
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Death

Duffy

  • Never Go Back
  • The Suicide
  • Disgrace
  • Mean Time

Larkin

  • An Arundel Tomb
  • Take One Home for the Kiddies
  • Ignorance
  • Mr Bleaney
  • Nothing to Be Said
  • Ambulances
  • Toads Revisited
  • Days
  • MCMXIV
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Optimism Versus Pessimism

Duffy

  • The Suicide
  • Mean Time

Larkin

  • First Sight
  • Nothing to Be Said
  • Days
  • Home is So Sad
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Ordinary, Everyday Life

Duffy

  • Drunk
  • The Windows
  • Prayer

Larkin

  • Afternoons
  • Self's the Man
  • Essential Beauty
  • Dockery and Son
  • Here
  • Ambulances
  • The Large Cool Store
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Work

Duffy

  • Fraud

Larkin

  • Toads Revisited
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Time

Duffy

  • The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team
  • Café Royal
  • Never Go Back
  • Havisham
  • Fraud
  • Prayer

Larkin

  • An Arundel Tomb
  • Dockery and Son
  • Nothing to Be Said
  • Send No Money
  • Love Songs in Age
  • Toads Revisited
  • Days
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Love, Sex and Relationships

Duffy

  • Moments of Grace
  • First Love
  • Crush
  • Valentine
  • Sleeping
  • Steam
  • Close
  • Adultery
  • Stuffed
  • The Biographer
  • The Windows

Larkin

  • For Sidney Bechet
  • Talking in bed
  • An Arundel Tomb
  • The Whitsun Weddings
  • Reference Back
  • Wild Oats
  • Broadcast
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Loneliness/Isolation

Duffy

  • Small Female Skull
  • Havisham
  • Room

Larkin

  • Importance of Elsewhere
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Loss and Regret

Duffy

  • The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team
  • Havisham

Larkin

  • A Study of Reading Habits
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Gender Roles/ Representation of Gender

Duffy

  • Before You Were Mine
  • Café Royal
  • The Cliché Kid
  • Stuffed

Larkin

  • Self's the Man
  • Sunny Prestatyn
  • A Study of Reading Habits
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Growing Up

Duffy

  • The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team
  • Stafford Afternoons
  • Welltread
  • The Good Teachers
  • Like Earning a Living
  • The Cliché Kid
  • Beachcomber
  • Away and See
  • Pluto
  • Moments of Grace
  • First Love

Larkin

  • A Study of Reading Habits
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Ageing

Duffy

  • The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team
  • Pluto
  • Havisham

Larkin

  • Love Songs in Age
  • A Study of Reading Habits
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Past, Present and Future

Duffy

  • The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team
  • Brothers
  • Before You Were Mine
  • Pluto

Larkin

  • Love Songs in Age
  • A Study of Reading Habits
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Past Haunting The Present

Duffy

  • Pluto
  • Caul
  • Small Female Skull
  • Moments of Grace
  • Crush
  • Havisham
  • The Biographer

Larkin

  • Send No Money
  • MCMXIV
  • Mr Bleaney
  • Home is So Sad
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Real Verses Ideal

Duffy

  • Litany
  • The Biographer

Larkin

  • The Whitsun Weddings
  • Ignorance
  • Reference Back
  • As Bad As a Mile
  • Naturally the Foundation will Bear your Expenses
  • Home is So Sad
  • The Large Cool Store
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Appearance Verses Reality

Duffy

  • Steam
  • The Suicide
  • Stuffed
  • The Windows

Larkin

  • An Arundel Tomb
  • Afternoons
  • For Sidney Bechet
17 of 24

Home/The Domestic/Place

Duffy

  • Litany
  • Nostalgia
  • Brothers
  • Café Royal
  • Never Go Back
  • Oslo
  • Disgrace
  • Room
  • Prayer

Larkin

  • Afternoons
  • Here
  • The Importance of Elsewhere
  • Home is So Sad
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Urban/Suburban/Rural

Duffy

  • Stafford Afternoons

Larkin

  • Afternoons
  • Ambulances
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Nature and the Relationship to Humanity

Duffy

  • Stafford Afternoons

Larkin

  • Afternoons
  • Take One Home for the Kiddies
  • First Sight
  • Broadcast
  • Talking in Bed
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Status and Class

Duffy

  • Brothers
  • Like Earning a Living
  • Havisham
  • Fraud

Larkin

  • Large Cool Store
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Education

Duffy

  • Welltread
  • The Good Teachers
  • Like Earning a Living
  • Away and See

Larkin

  • A Study of Reading Habits
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Power

Duffy

  • The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team
  • Before You Were Mine
  • Confession
  • Stuffed

Larkin

  • Self's the Man
  • Take One Home for the Kiddies
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Memory

Duffy

  • The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team
  • Litany
  • Nostalgia
  • Stafford Afternoons
  • Before You Were Mine
  • Welltread
  • Pluto
  • Beachcomber
  • Caul
  • First Love

Larkin

  • Mr Bleaney
  • Love Songs in Age
  • A Study of Reading Habits
  • Reference Back
  • Wild Oats
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Comments

Elmo

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If you think that another poem fits under any of these categories, do not hesitate to let me know. We're all helping each other :) (Only from collections 'Mean Time' and 'The Whitsun Weddings'

nbridie

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Can we have alienation and abandonment as a theme please. Also Mr Bleany can be in loneliness/isolation :)

Iqra Adalat

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Any on unreliable love grouped together? 

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