The past, time and passing Larkin + small links abse
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- Created on: 12-05-15 17:25
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- The Past
- Reference Back
- Futility of thinking you can hold time
- final stanza 'our' 'we' personal pronouns universal
- Metaphor 'sudden bridge' shows brief connection between mother and son + unites parents with the past metaphorically
- Regrets himself for failures
- bereavement could have been more communicative
- alternate interpretation Half Rhyme breakdown in relationship unsatisfying' or incomplete
- break down communication
- Nostalgic 'record personal memories
- Link 1914
- 198 Cathedral road
- 'hosed objects' bringing them to life
- 'so much dust mother' comic
- Futility of thinking you can hold time
- 1914
- Nostalgic memories
- simpler age before modern nightmare began
- 1914 numerals how remote it was
- repetition of 'nenver' funeral bell
- yearning for innocence free from commercialism which lack values
- 'moustached' 'archaic'
- Return to Cardiff abse ' I loved the place for what I wanted it to be'
- Stupidity of the past/ regrets
- war an adventure no different from football
- place names left in wild flowers no need for them
- The finality of the past 'without a word' era vanishes, never resumed. put in modern world
- Nostalgic memories
- Love Songs in Age
- Nostalgia mixed feelings
- chords frank + submissive could suggest cliché.
- Looking at past damages you
- all time in world when young
- 'glare + brilliance' ott remembering hurts
- learn from past like love experience shows isn't what it seems.
- love didn't conquer ten and not now
- learn from past like love experience shows isn't what it seems.
- love didn't conquer ten and not now
- Return to Cardiff nothing is as it first seemed. + Blotched love affair
- change in her
- Nostalgia mixed feelings
- Afternoons
- Afternoons
- powerlessness in the face of time
- 'new' recreation temporarily new
- like how mothers courting ruined by wind of time
- children 'unripe acorns'
- mother 'beauty thickened' youth passed slow decline death
- 'new' recreation temporarily new
- repetition of the past inevitability - endless cycle
- 'set free' could be to play or birth cycle birth
- experience universal
- dull cycle work kids domestic
- same courting places
- Untitled
- Return to Cardiff 'rites of passage' have to do kissing etc...
- time passing + decay
- show how grow and die
- powerlessness in the face of time
- Reference Back
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