Philip Larkin’s Poetry: Themes, Form, Style, Imagery and Symbolism
him irrelevant and dead for man of today, the poetry that he thinks that he must
conscientiously write is the one that is related to the daily experiences,
expressed in the prosaic objectivity that demands its realism”. (1973, 177)
2. CHAPTER II:
2.1. EXPRESSING HIMSELF
Brownjohn remember us that one of the praised qualities more after the
publication of The Whitsun Weddings was “The captivating accuracy with which there
am catches the physical feel of life in England in our Time” (1975, 13). One of the
mechanisms that Larkin uses to catch the reader is the presence of daily objects, is
which Larkin denominates “the furniture of our lives” (1983, 211) 102.
Bruce K. Martin affects this rooting of the poetry of Larkin in his time when
affirming: “Taken together, his poems afford a remarkable panorama of British