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Comment 11 of 11, added on May 23rd, 2006 at 9:21 AM.
the last line could symbolise what has been written on a 'letter of exile' by previous travellers who have stopped at 'The Royal Station Hotel' and travellers tend to note down things like waves, etc. Maybe? Let me know - e-mail me your thoughts?? xx
Bekz from United Kingdom
Comment 10 of 11, added on March 31st, 2006 at 6:00 AM.
the last line to me carries the idea of loss of homeland, in the way it talks of night coming on, ths can be interpreted as the hardship faced by immigrants to the country. The word 'villages' makes me think of the villages wiped out by tsunamis and that made me think of immigrants. The way the hotel is presented, as dark, forboding maybe reflects the feelings of new arrivals to the country.
It also kind of reminds me of limbo and the underworld. i dunno probably crap but hey.
josh from United Kingdom
Comment 9 of 11, added on March 12th, 2006 at 5:22 PM.
the whole poem is onabout the loneliness and isolation of this hotel, the beginning line being an oxymoron showing us that even the light cant even brighten the place up. the significance of the knives and glass being the loneliness of them, we always assosciate knives with forks and glass with drinks, the lack of these necessary things again emphasises loneliness. the people are the life of this hotel when they leave so does the life. the lines in italics are in reference to the fact we have a beautiful sight of waves but they are situated behind the villages as if the beaury is hidden away, the beauty of this hotel isnt noticed as it has itself been left alone and isolated.
k8e from United Kingdom
Comment 8 of 11, added on December 15th, 2005 at 5:05 AM.
i am struggling with the whole friend situation, i need advice on how to make friends i got some but they all hate me
ben from United Kingdom
Comment 7 of 11, added on December 15th, 2005 at 2:51 AM.
im a door, alqways will be always have been, help me!?!? My frends rite me letters to leave the group but i will fight foor my place with my witty humour. Buts that is where im goin wrong i have no humor i could b the moest boring boi in the world. Help Help the fatt fatty jew boi pls
Ben (the door) Clarkson from Armenia
Comment 6 of 11, added on December 13th, 2005 at 4:12 AM.
i think that larkin is the greatest poet of our time it was just a coinceedencee that i ended up ijn his garden at 3 in the moring i thought it was the park
Ibba
Sociemum from Botswana
Comment 5 of 11, added on October 17th, 2005 at 3:08 AM.
Please email me about poems
my fav line is: i dont like criket, i love it!
Sammy boi from United Kingdom
Comment 4 of 11, added on October 6th, 2005 at 8:43 AM.
I feel that the line in italics brings in a threatening note to the poem. It declares the arrival of 'night', with its sinister connotation of death. The image of 'waves' folding behind villages is even more ominous. Also, notice the reference to 'light' at the beginning of the poem; when you contrast this with the perfctly rhyming 'night' you begin to understand the dark idea of death. Again the waves of darkness fold behind 'villages', which I think suggests a perfectly innocent and unsupecting existence shocked by death. This explains the italics, I think!
priyadharshini from India
Comment 3 of 11, added on May 19th, 2005 at 4:05 AM.
I believe that the fact it is in italics could be Larkin using a different perspective or even from a dreamlike state, because it has happened before and it is repetitive. Autonomous if you like.
Jamie Bale from United Kingdom
Comment 2 of 11, added on February 7th, 2005 at 5:39 PM.
could it be about race with the different colour chairs and knives and glass are totally opposite so it could be a reference to race again i dunno
steph from United Kingdom
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the last line could symbolise what has been written on a 'letter of exile' by previous travellers who have stopped at 'The Royal Station Hotel' and travellers tend to note down things like waves, etc. Maybe? Let me know - e-mail me your thoughts?? xx
Bekz from United Kingdom