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Comment 2 of 2, added on December 12th, 2008 at 6:57 PM.
Why do people often feel the need to find a "message" in works of literature? Rarely ever is it appropriate to read a far-reaching allegory of human nature in these things. The poem is fourteen lines. It's a gentle, subtle thing, and part of the beauty is in that subtlety!
maybe i'm just a critic from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on June 9th, 2006 at 3:33 AM.
This line; ‘Earth’s immeasurable surprise’ illustrates Larkin’s view that life never pans out as you might expect and that it is amazing and unpredictable. It is more obviously positive than many of his other works and seems to me to express a joy for the world without there needing to be any greater meaning such as a presence of a god or faith of some kind. It is praising the harshness and tenderness of nature, and life in its simplest form.
Abel from United Kingdom
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Why do people often feel the need to find a "message" in works of literature? Rarely ever is it appropriate to read a far-reaching allegory of human nature in these things. The poem is fourteen lines. It's a gentle, subtle thing, and part of the beauty is in that subtlety!
maybe i'm just a critic from United States