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Comment 2 of 2, added on July 10th, 2005 at 8:33 AM.
As part of Larkin's poetry was devoted to the problem of passing of time, I have the impression that in this poem he longs for his 'young days", because finally when there was end of hypocrisy and"sexual intercourses began" and "Life was never better than in ninteen sixty three" it was rather late for him.
Justyna from Poland
Comment 1 of 2, added on June 7th, 2005 at 10:06 AM.
Talking in Bed expresses misgivings about the possibility of human intimacy and thus touches upon the problematic value of human communication in general. This image of conversation within which there are no barriers to sincerity, he claims is never fully lives up to; as time goes by, within a relationship or a marriage , then a certain silence enroaches, a certain reserve or perhaps a drought of things to say. When reading this poem for the first time, I couldn't quite underdstand why the two people are finding it difficult to communicate, they seem isloated, but they are far from isloation. It's a very ambiguous poem!! Feel free to to disagree!
Sukhi from United Kingdom
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As part of Larkin's poetry was devoted to the problem of passing of time, I have the impression that in this poem he longs for his 'young days", because finally when there was end of hypocrisy and"sexual intercourses began" and "Life was never better than in ninteen sixty three" it was rather late for him.
Justyna from Poland