Larkin's Poems
1. Choose three poems and analyze the effectiveness in them of Larkin's imagery.
Larkin's poems are great artifacts of language; often colloquial and which bring many images to a person's mind when reading them. We think of these images due to his use of words, standard rhyme schemes and his interesting perception of life transmitted through his poems. This essay will study these three poems; The Whitsun Weddings', High Windows' and Sunny Prestatyn' in order to show the effectiveness in them of Larkin's imagery.
The Whitsun Weddings,' represents the change in life, which everyone goes through. This poem is about a man, possibly Larkin, going on a train heading to the countryside. Towards the middle of the poem, he sees that on every station the train stops at, there is a newlywed couple getting on for their honeymoon. At the end of the poem, he explains how marriage changes you. He uses many nouns to describe what he sees while on the train.
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