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Comment 6 of 6, added on May 25th, 2006 at 10:25 AM.
Having read this poem i feel that is it about young people wanting to get away and explore for themselves.
The line 'Simply to get away From married villages before morning' means to me that he [the persona] wants to get away from the stifiling village where he was born. The idea of cattlemen makes my reasoning stronger for this.
The lines 'When the chance sight Of a girl doing her laundry in the steerage Ramifies endlessly' means to me the freedom of youth, in terms of feelings of a boy to a girl, sexually. Which he would not have been allowed to feel without guilt while he was stuck in his village.
Katy from United Kingdom
Comment 5 of 6, added on May 16th, 2006 at 10:38 AM.
i have a very big nose but unfortunetly i av a very small willey,why cudnt it be the other way round
eliott davies from Andorra
Comment 4 of 6, added on April 21st, 2006 at 2:27 PM.
I thought that the poem was about the coming of age, and the young moving away from their villages to be with the other young people, and experience life.
Hayley from United Kingdom
Comment 3 of 6, added on March 31st, 2006 at 5:55 AM.
This poem is all about the point between past present and the possible future. The use of 'ramified endlessly' shows of how the young girl could be his sister or mother.
Like many of Larkin's poems it also has a hint of age vs youth about it. although without the usual bitterness.
josh from United Kingdom
Comment 2 of 6, added on December 3rd, 2005 at 10:02 AM.
I think this poem could be about men leaving to go to war! The line, "simply to get away", was an opinion of many men who went to war and they thought it would be an exciting new experience as many had never left thier home county. Larkin was also of this generation so may have experience of this. There is a definate sense of leaving things behind and passing of time and place.
katie from United Kingdom
Comment 1 of 6, added on November 1st, 2005 at 2:57 AM.
We think this poem has a link with This Be the Verse. There is a definite idea of separation: This Be The Verse uses you instaed of we and How Distant is talking about things away from the position of the narrator. Are we barking mad?
Laura and Jess from United Kingdom
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Having read this poem i feel that is it about young people wanting to get away and explore for themselves.
The line 'Simply to get away From married villages before morning' means to me that he [the persona] wants to get away from the stifiling village where he was born. The idea of cattlemen makes my reasoning stronger for this.
The lines 'When the chance sight Of a girl doing her laundry in the steerage Ramifies endlessly' means to me the freedom of youth, in terms of feelings of a boy to a girl, sexually. Which he would not have been allowed to feel without guilt while he was stuck in his village.
Katy from United Kingdom