It has been a while, to say the least, and I've now been instructed to look at two volumes; Phillip Larkin's Whitsun Weddings, and Dannie Abse's Welsh Retrospective. Initially, my reactions to Larkin's work were skeptical, he just seemed like another doom and gloom poet with a range of themes as limited as the range of "soft roader" car designs on the market today. After a bit of analysis, however, he seems slightly less gloomy, and far more philosophical. In fact, all of his poems seem to undergo a philosophical metamorphosis at around the penultimate stanza. This will now be referred to as a Larkin Shift.
Music features greatly in Larkin's poems, so allow me to assist this.
You need to post about wach of the poems of Larkin we have done so far to have a revision record. Write the post about Abse as well please and one for your annotated Abse poem
ReplyDeleteYou should have been blogging regularly about each of the Larkin poems, the Abse poems we have studied to gather and now there is formal homework you need to do - blogging about each of the 4 poems set last week and 4 each week from now on until the exams. Please make every effort to catch up (at least with the 4 Abse poems from alst week and this week) ASAP. Read other blog posts to give you ideas about what to write if you don't know where to start.
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