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Comment 5 of 5, added on November 1st, 2009 at 7:20 PM.
I definitely think Akira was onto something. I believe the poem is about a home being left, but since the personal belongings there were what made it a home, it becomes a house to the newcommers, ready to be turned into a home yet again, but with the things that are important to them. It is all about a cycle of life, and how possibly it is our belongings that make us who we are (look at Mr Bleany too, for instance) and are all we leave behind - yet the onlookers dont see the true significance in the items.
Cheyenne from Australia
Comment 4 of 5, added on January 24th, 2009 at 5:29 AM.
In my opinion, i wouldn't agree with any of those comments. I thought that Philip Larkin was personifying "home", and that home represents something in his life. It isn't taken literally as a house, as a home is more personal, more unique and individual than a house. A house is just merely a building, with no memories or experiences itself. It is a home that makes the poem different. The items Larkin names are images that give us a sense of "home". It is what he personally selected, and each have a special meaning, representation. I'm still hazy on the meaning of the poem, but i will further analyse it.
akira from Australia
Comment 3 of 5, added on June 2nd, 2006 at 11:43 AM.
This is a beautiful poem; apart from the variety of nostalgic and melancholic themes, the wide use of literary techniques considering the short length of the poem is quite genius in places and thoroughly effective. The transferred epithets, the syntax, the subtle pun... they all comprise a fantastic poem. That final descending tricolon is also particularly poignant and provides, in my opinion, a perfectly apt conclusion for the tone and mood of the poem.
Walker from United Kingdom
Comment 2 of 5, added on September 29th, 2005 at 5:57 PM.
my name is sara lopera,and i was introuced with the poem by my brother steven .Im only 13 years old but i think the poem is about how a guy feel so lonely that he feel that his house is his only campanion.He also mentions materialistic stuff as if that is all he has.
sara lopera from United States
Comment 1 of 5, added on September 12th, 2005 at 1:59 PM.
When I initially read this poem, I thought of how as we grow older, we all are to leave a place we once called home. When we return, things aren't exactly as they were when we left them. Although, everything can remain the same just as it was left, its we who change, and because we change, things don't feel the same upon return.
I took a second look at it, and thought about how maybe the content of the poem is about how when people are forced to leave homes, and the contents are just left there without the people.
Ash James from United States
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I definitely think Akira was onto something. I believe the poem is about a home being left, but since the personal belongings there were what made it a home, it becomes a house to the newcommers, ready to be turned into a home yet again, but with the things that are important to them. It is all about a cycle of life, and how possibly it is our belongings that make us who we are (look at Mr Bleany too, for instance) and are all we leave behind - yet the onlookers dont see the true significance in the items.
Cheyenne from Australia