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PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985) - Coggle Diagram
PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)
LIFE
born into a middle-class family and educated at Oxford
considered a misanthrope because he didn't like young people, travels, interviews
he died in Hull in 1985
A memorial stone in Westminster Abbey was unveiled on 2nd December 2016 in Poets' Corner
WORKS
1945
The North Ship
dedicated to Yeats
1955
The Less Deceived
established him as
anti-romantic poet
of great wit
1964
The Whitsun Weddings
1974
High windows
his concern about death
1946
Jill
novels about his university years
1947
A girl in winter
1970
All what jazz: A Record diary 1961-68
jazz essays (he was a jazz critic)
THEMES
events from daily life
as in Thomas Hardy, praised by Larkin
dry approach to time, nature, childhood
winter, cold and dark landscapes
disillusionment, defeat, isolation, boredom, pessimism
old age as the decline of man
anxiety, distress, incommunicability
STYLE
argumentative and colloquial language
coarse expressions
High Windows
(last collection)
2 important symbols
the photograph
stands for the past, frozen
the room
represents loneliness and the limits of human experience
POEMS
Annus mirabilis
1963, the year of sexual liberation
reference to
Lady Chatterley's lover
(D.H. Lawrence) and
The Beatles
Toads