Phillip Larkin Essay

The statement Larkin is a poet of white-haired moods, suburban sadness and original dec. Is accurate and appropriate when looking at and reading his poetry. This is displayed through his sundry(a) poems, including the ones Im going to talk about Aubade and The Whitsun Weddings. Both of which limn every(prenominal) trine themes.The poem Aubade as a whole jibes these three themes through the constant use of truncation in poem at the end of every stanza. The poem itself also represents the themes as Aubade is about plaint the livelihood we have in preparation for cobblers last, which in its irony comes on a lower floor the first theme of grey moods.More specific ally to the theme of grey moods indoors Aubade is through the adduce, I work all day, and get half(a) drunk at night. /Waking at four to soundless dark. I stare As this is in the opening stanza it sets the tone of the poem and portrays Larkins particular mindset. The monosyllabic language stresss his reluctance in engaging in daily tone as well as his depression. Soundless dark, be an allusion to expiration it portrays to the reader a certain learning ability Larkin has on life due to these moods.The next quote to represent grey moods shows a mulish outlook Larkin has on life and thoughts. Making all thought unfeasible but how / and where and when I shall myself die. This quote from the poem is truncated to emphasise the inevitability of death itself. This quote yet again shows the outlook he has on life and the particular mindset Larkin is in which is largely influences his moods.Suburban melancholy is another theme represented passim various poems written by Larkin, including Aubade. Throughout this poem despondent outlooks on life is shown for example in this quote, meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring / in locked up offices. The incarnation effectively represents his distaste for life, working and daily duties again reiterating that the poem is about mourning life in preparation for death. The line in the quote saying, getting ready to ring can be interpreted as a symbol or a metaphorical representation of death calling.Another example displaying the theme of suburban melancholy is the quote, all the lumpen / intricate rented world begins to rouse. By saying intricate world sum complicated it shows his outlook again on the daily life of gild and human beings, possibly because they dont share the same line of work for death as he does. The words uncaring and unrented world bring together to extinction and further links back to the theme of grey moods as well as accepted regrets as his attitude towards life is we are all going to die anyway so in a way what is the point.The theme of accepted regrets is evident throughout this poem and is shown in the quote, Being brave / lets no one off the grave This rhyme and truncation emphasises Larkins outlook and acceptance in spite of appearance life and death. In this quote he accepts and under al lows that death is inevitable and Larkin acknowledges that it does not matter who he is or the decisions he has make in life it willing not miscellanea anything. demolition will still come.The poem The Whitsun Weddings by Larkin as a whole represents all three themes through the structural use of truncation within stanzas to represent lines that are in a candid tone and also enjambement in Larkins descriptions of buildings and such as he admires buildings because they can stand forever and he fears death.The theme of grey moods is present within this poem in the following quote, did my three-quarters-empty train pull out The use of rhythm allows this line to flow in to the next line to further emphasise his tone and attitude. This quote also shows a metaphorical emptiness within Larkin as during this poem the time and place and setting have a relevance and meaning and he does not.Suburban melancholy is portrayed throughout these quotes, Of blinding windscreens, smelt the fish c hase. The visual imagery at the ancestor of this quote and then the olfactory imagery of the smell of the fish dock show sadness in his opinion and description of the landscape and his surroundings and how unappealing his society and life may be.Then in the quote, Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat The simile emphasises the closeness and urban receive of the society again adding to the unappealing and dull nature and tone he sees in his surroundings.The final theme of accepted regrets is present within The Whitsun Weddings in these quotes, ready to be loosed with all the power / that being change can give. This objective language shows Larkins experience on this journey and that events like this can change someones outlook on life but it hasnt changed him and he accepts his decision for partaking in the journey.And as the tightened brakes took hold, there swelled / a signified of falling. This quote contains an scenery of visual imagery but shows a sense of falli ng to death. Death is inevitable and he believes that there is no hope, which he accepts and understands with the link to the sense of falling.Phillip Larkin is a poet is a poet of grey moods, suburban melancholy and accepted regrets and this as I have stated is unmistakable throughout all aspects of his poetry.