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Analysis and comments on Toads Revisited by Philip Larkin

Comment 2 of 2, added on June 9th, 2006 at 6:14 AM.

Work is just a way to pass the time and you have nothing better to do in the intervening period between birth and death so you might as well let it help you down cemetery road.

Abel from United Kingdom
Comment 1 of 2, added on October 30th, 2005 at 10:10 PM.

I like this one, apparently a kind of sequel to the other Toad poem that denounced work as not being worth the candle. Nothing difficult here that I can see, very clear. Larkin seems to think work is at least better than being left to dwell on one's wasted life during some pointless retirement activity. Not much better though, probably. I doubt if there's a jewel in the toad's head.

Jack from United States



Information about Toads Revisited

Poet: Philip Larkin
Poem: Toads Revisited
Volume: The Whitsun Weddings
Year: 1962
Added: Feb 20 2003
Viewed: 7568 times
Poem of the Day: Feb 12 2005


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