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Comment 33 of 33, added on April 16th, 2008 at 9:12 AM.
This is a point directed at the people who seem to think that Larkin 'foresaw the gradual and progressive degradation of the family unit in american society.' Hello? Have you not read the rest of the poems in the anthology, High Windows. Larkin & his poems were so quintessentially english it is unbelievable. One of themes running throughout the anthology is that of 'englishness'. Get your facts right before you start commenting!
megan from United Kingdom
Comment 32 of 33, added on February 9th, 2008 at 12:47 PM.
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Comment 31 of 33, added on January 25th, 2008 at 2:33 PM.
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Comment 30 of 33, added on January 17th, 2008 at 11:45 PM.
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Comment 29 of 33, added on January 10th, 2008 at 2:27 PM.
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Comment 27 of 33, added on November 21st, 2007 at 11:23 AM.
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Comment 26 of 33, added on November 20th, 2007 at 8:13 AM.
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Comment 25 of 33, added on July 29th, 2006 at 9:06 AM.
This is not farcical at all, it's a fact of life. And it is stupid to think that you can do better than your parents. Your parents also thought that they would get it right where their parents failed, but let's face it, we love them and respect their effort and sacrifices, but we came out fucked up anyway (If you are not fucked up, you should not be in a Philip Larkin forum). I already decided not to have kids because of this feeling that it was a never-ending cycle, and when I read his poem I was amazed at how it reflected my own feelings. Actually a lot of his poems reflect my own feelings when I thought that nobody could relate to me, and that is why I love his poems.
HJJ from United States
Comment 24 of 33, added on July 26th, 2006 at 2:48 AM.
I think Larkin was pessimistic about the future generations of american youth and more importnatly, he foresaw the gradual and progressive degradation of the family unit in american society. He uses a vulgarity as means for evoking a sense of reality and, ironically, he highlights how such liberal usage of vulgarities even in the most sacred places,(poetry) can show us how moral values are slowly being eroded. In the second stanza, he seems to say, more and more, parents are looked up by their children as role models but the irony of all this is that while they are "sterns" at home (pun on the word stern, which is also used in nautical travelling,) they act like mere hypocrites outside, betraying their own teachings. Children of today will never learn from their role models and thus, "man hands on misery. " Finally, I think the title of the poem, "This be The Verse" is extremely apt and startling, for it reflects a crazed culture in today's society in dire need for a salvation, hence, the religious undertone.
Stef from United States
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This is a point directed at the people who seem to think that Larkin 'foresaw the gradual and progressive degradation of the family unit in american society.' Hello? Have you not read the rest of the poems in the anthology, High Windows. Larkin & his poems were so quintessentially english it is unbelievable. One of themes running throughout the anthology is that of 'englishness'. Get your facts right before you start commenting!
megan from United Kingdom