The Whitsun Weddings
- Created by: Laurenlauritzen
- Created on: 01-02-15 16:31
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- The Whitsun Weddings
- 'Whistun'= may holiday, when jesus told disciple's the holy spirit would appear.
- Overview: Protaganist on train and larkin brins alive the remarkable sights on encountered on the journey. Spiritual aspect; series of meditations on different journeys of life.
- Larkin at most positive.
- Themes: Journeys and visits, place, criticising society, purpose of life, memories, relationships, family.
- 1st 2 stanza; show detachment. I-we key change.
- Journeys+visits dominant here.
- First stanza: trying to recreate the journey on hot day with all senses.
- Creating sharp shots of things passing by.
- 'Hurry gone'= rushing to get on train, hot fatigue, relieved.
- 'Porters larking with the mails'= thinks the noise is the porters at first.
- 'Heat that slept'= personified, tangible quality to heat.
- 'And saw it all again in different terms'= notices other people and that parities are all different but the same, cant afford real stuff.
- 'bunting-dressed'= trying to make look nice when its not that great.
- 'nylon gloves'= cheap version of silk, cut prize weddings, tacky.
- 'The secret like a happy funeral'= oxymoron for women, one life ending another beginning. Girls had no idea what marriage meant.
- Last stanza: changes for everyone, couples new life, larkin realised about weddings. Images of fertility.
- 'Or how their lives would all contain this hour'= all connected by this train journey in some way.
- Second to last stanza: you would expect couples to be focused on eachother but they aren't.
- All so caught up in own world don't meet other couples, pre occupied.
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