Love in Duffy + Larkin
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- Love in Duffy/Larkin
- Katherine Viner: Duffy's poetry is "filled with lost loves and yearning for the past"
- John Betjeman: Larkin is "tenderly observant"
- Family love
- 'Brothers
- "I enjoy reciting their names"
- Duffy had 4 brothwers
- 'Reference Back'
- "Wasting my time at home, that you looked so much forward to"
- exploring a mother/son relationship
- 'Brothers
- Sexuality
- 'Steam'
- "a nude pose in soft pencil"
- 'Sleeping'
- "I taste with my opening mouth"
- lust in 'Wild Oats'
- "bosomy English rose"
- Duffy = bisexual
- Larkin = rumoured to have had homosexual tendencies
- 'Steam'
- Passive in love
- 'Crush'
- "sit by a desk and star at the view, till the time where they live reappears"
- 'Wild Oats'
- "it was the friend I took out"
- stereotyping women
- Larkin = accused of sexism in his letters
- 'Crush'
- Loss of love
- 'Adultery'
- "**** a lie with a hole in it"
- 'Havisham'
- "Spinster. I stink and remember."
- 'Disgrace'
- "a naked crawl from a dead place over the other"
- 'Wild Oats'
- "I was too selfish, withdrawn, and easily bored to love"
- 'Adultery'
- Loving relationships
- 'Valentine'
- "It promises light like the careful ********** of love"
- gets darker: "cling to your knife"
- 'Broadcast'
- "Your hands, tiny in all that air, applauding"
- 'Valentine'
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