Philip Larkin poetry analysis
has been the subject of a high profile court case, after it was banned as being obscene. Larkin
was happy about the new era and new possibilities, but he says that it's already too late for
him.
Larkin was not only interested in politics, but he was also part of the Men's Movement.
Other members were also for example Ezra Pound and Thomas Stearns Eliot. Larkin wrote
about violence towards women and about violence against images of women. In his poem
´´Sunny Prestatyn´´ the protagonist is a girl. I think that she may represent femininity or the
whole female race. In the second stanza Larkin writes´´ She was slapped up one day in
March.´´ And he is describing in a quite brutal way how her teeth are hit out and how a man
with tuberculosis is raping her. And in the third stanza he says that ´´she was too good for this
life.´´ I think that Larkin is trying to say, that most of the women are seen as ´´sex objects´´
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