Mr Bleaney
- Created by: Laurenlauritzen
- Created on: 31-01-15 17:45
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- Mr Bleaney
- 'No room for books bags'. 'Fusty bed'. 'Flowered curtains'. 'Same saucer-souvenir'.
- Description of room. Boring, lifeless, dull.
- 'Four aways'= football pools. Everyday/boring.
- 'Bed, upright chair, no hook behind the door'. Everything for a bedroom, nothing to make homely.
- Stanza 6; starts talking about himself.
- 'Tousling'= bleaney wouldn't know these words.
- Last stanza: seems to be talking about bleaney but talking about himself+ questioning f his life Is any better. You get what you deserve
- Life the same meaning he deserves no better.
- 'One hired box'= coffin, constricting.
- More sympathy at end.
- Life the same meaning he deserves no better.
- Bleaneys life: sad,dull, existing not living, isolated,routine, larkin prediciting what his life was like.
- Larkin can relate to him. Lonely single man.
- Same rhyming scheme= tightly controlles restricting nature.
- Overview: Speculates meaning of life and reflects back on own interpretation of what life must of been like.
- Themes: Creating characters, Place, Meaning and purpose of life, Everyday events, Death.
- 1st voice: landlady. 2nd voice: Larkins persona.
- 'No room for books bags'. 'Fusty bed'. 'Flowered curtains'. 'Same saucer-souvenir'.
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