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Here is one of  Larkin's poems about his journey home to Hull, written in 1961. He takes into account the changes of scenery. the world around him seems materialistic " electric mixers, toasters, washers etc. The poem is a combination of good and bad description. for example he talks about the shining gull marked mud  to the gold clouds. later on it is described as fishy smelling and the people around him are a cut price crowd. it then ends with the speaker looking out over the sea from a beach unable to go any further. When entering the countryside everything seems to grow around him  "neglected waters quicken...

There is a significant change from the city to the countryside. The city area is materialistic and fake and then the countryside is pure and beautiful.the poem ends when the narrator stops at a beach questioning existence whilst looking out at the sea. Throughout the entirety of the poem there is a visible speed present, this begins with the train he is travelling on swerving around the city of Hull and when it reaches the country it slows down to a steady pace.

Whitsun Weddings

On first glances, the Whitsun Weddings didn't really appeal to me as something that I wanted to read. however as we went through it in class I began to realize that it was worth reading. the whole point of the poem was the speakers realization about how special each an every wedding was to each of the couples. the whole experience serves as an epiphany to the speaker who begins to realist how pointless each one of the weddings is, but they each serve as a start to their lives good or bad.one interesting point that caught my attention was how the train was described as an arrow. I believe it was described this way because it was projecting the couples lives into the future to however it may turn out for them.

First impressions

After reading through a majority of the poems my initial reactions were that:
1.they all seemed very miserable and dark themed.
2. Some of them were about his personal observations of the outside world, especially in Dockery and son where he questions people's life decisions.

one other reoccurring theme was one of loss which seemed personal to him. it made me think that he had lost someone personal to him.