Death Larkin
- Created by: lw121x
- Created on: 14-05-15 14:25
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- For Larkin in the 'Whitsun Weddings', the details of living are only 'a struggle to transcend the thought of dying'
- Intro: 'whitsun' confronts own fears concerning death. Routine + ordinary details struggle to distract death. Domestic duties may be all that survives of us
- fear mortality expressed 'days' meaningless
- Ambulances living as temporary distraction
- However, despite pessimistic Arundel tomb = hope resilience.
- Days
- reality of death
- contrast simple register of language and complex reality of death
- child like questions with hidden meaning
- 'running over fields' childlike euphemisms for death = foregrounds bleak reality
- metaphysical reality of death
- 'what are days for?- metaphysical probing the very nature of existence
- 'days exemplifies fears outlining central anxiety living meaningless
- Cycle nature of death
- 'come and wake us time and time' mundane unpredictability
- Death escape routine
- contrast simple register of language and complex reality of death
- reality of death
- Ambulances
- Living temporary distraction from death
- 'poor souls' selfish sympathy for themselves
- lives of people protected from 'soliving emptiness' by demands of work chores etc...
- just distractions never win 'thought of dying'
- Inevitability of death
- 'threading' connecting everyone
- frightening
- 'closed like confessionals secretive + death are like sins need to be purged
- 'no glances absorb' inpenatrateable and fearsome
- Living temporary distraction from death
- An Arundel Tomb
- Possibility of beauty in death/ hope
- central metaphor movement through time
- Tombs survival demonstrates survival through time
- However it's our instincts that cause this
- image 'trough' concrete juxtaposes with 'smoke' mystery. Faces vage eroded. Passing nature of romance
- Possibility that there is more to life than a mere daily routine
- Possibility of beauty in death/ hope
- Conclusion: Larkin addresses own fears routines being astruggle to keep death at bay in 'days' ambulances. Beath inevitable but in 'arudel tomb left that there is hope something more powerful
- Intro: 'whitsun' confronts own fears concerning death. Routine + ordinary details struggle to distract death. Domestic duties may be all that survives of us
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