Afternoons
- Created by: Cnm2001
- Created on: 13-05-18 17:45
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- Afternoons - Philip Larkin
- Context
- Larkin(a romantic) recieved Poet Laureate but declined - Was against fame.
- Didn't marry or travel.
- Quotes
- 'Summer is fading'
- 'From trees bordering'
- 'In the hollows of afternoons'
- '/Our Wedding/, lying Near the television'
- 'wind Is ruining their courting-places
- 'Something is pushing them To the side of their own lives.'
- Structure
- Title suggests mothers are in 'afternoons' of their lives, and the day is almost ending, like their lives.
- First stanza takes cynical views of marriage and regimented lives
- Cyclic structure, no change, free verse contrasts unfree lives.
- Context
- Into Autumn (death)
- People are trapped in their lives
- Emptiness, hollow existence
- Things have no importance or relevance anymore.
- Pathetic fallacy shows time is ruining their relationships.
- Displacement from themselves, now watch lives that aren't theirs, without control
- Second stanza more descriptive of individuals such as single or little-supported mothers.
- Third stanza focuses on lost dreams, hope and needs.
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