Wild oats
- Created by: Laurenlauritzen
- Created on: 01-02-15 18:39
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- Wild oats
- Overview: 2 girls he prefers one but goes for the other as he thinks the other is out of reach. Critics think this is about Larkin himself.
- Themes: relationships, love, women, illusion and reality, disappointment.
- Title: sex, sowing seeds, but instead is In a long term relationship with no fun. Contrast with title and poem.
- 'Bosomy English rose'= attracted to sexual element, cliché.
- Intimadtaed by the vision of beauty
- Suggest lack of confidence
- Intimadtaed by the vision of beauty
- 'Her friend in specs'= objectifying women, derogatory.
- 'Faces' 'sparkled the whole shooting match-off'= very superficial, attracted to appearance.
- Stanza 2: dismissed 7 year relationship in a few lines.
- 'Gave a ten-guinea ring'= cheap tacky, shows how he isn't bothered, not investing much.
- 'Unknown clergy'= ashamed of her, symbolising his intentions not to marry.
- 'Parting about 5 times'= lack of passion, dysfunctional, 5 times to get words out, 5 times to break up.
- 'Unlucky charms'= some sort of comfort usually, sign of own failure, reminds him to lower expectations.
- Revealing things about speaker of poem, misogynistic.
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