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Larkin and Duffy: Family and home - Coggle Diagram
Larkin and Duffy: Family and home
Larkin
Mr Bleaney
"This was Mr Bleaney's room."
"Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb, no hook behind the door, no room for books or bags"
"Telling himself that this was home."
"He warranted no better, I don't know."
Richard Palmer: "He is a poet afraid of madness who envies 'bleaney' in his sufferably sane routine."
Richard Palmer: "In the midst of his apparent contempt for Frinton, Stoke, 'the jabbering set' and 'the four aways', there is a hankering for a 'yearly frame', that would comfort and regulate life."
'Bodies' - a car body workshop/ factory. Larkin may be critical that Bleaney is simply a faceless cog in the machine of industrial production lines.
Larkin lived a very frugal life. His apartment in Hull contained very few modern conveniences. He did not own a television. Larkin famously did not like possessions, so he would be unhappy to be judged by what he owned.
Take One Home for the Kiddies
Home is so Sad
"Home is so sad."
"It stays as it was left"
"Look at the pictures and the cutlery."
"That vase."
Larkin's childhood home survived the Luftwaffe Coventry Blitz of WW2; however, it was razed to the ground in the 1960s for a new ring road around Coventry. Larkin could be commenting that even something that seems structurally sound and static is also eroded and abandoned.
Lesley Jeffries: "That vase - adds a distance to the scene as if the scene is getting further away from the reader."
EJ Taylor: "Strips to bare minimum in order to make it more universal."
Lesley Jeffries: "A joyous shot - raises false hope in the reader by reminding them human beings are ridiculously optimistic."
The Importance of Elsewhere
Dockery and Son
Duffy
Before You Were Mine
Brothers
The Windows
Caul
The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team
Room