Broadcast Analysis

Themes:

• Love
• Humour
• Music
• Seperation

Context:

This poem is a love poem from Larkin to Maeve Brennan after she was at a BBC Symphony Orchestra concert at Hull and Larkin was at home listening, trying to pick her out from the crowd. The poem is essentially a love poem concerning a male persona sitting a home listening to a concert that his love is at over the radio.

Title:

This literally means a radio broadcast. Although, it could also be interpreted that his lover is 'broadcast' into his mind.

First Stanza:

• 'Giant whispering' -oxymoron and suggests the noise the persona hears over the radio is not easily distinguisable and is…