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But it does not apply to this poem. May 17, 2011 at 07:39 AM, Posted by: However, to all those who have expressed a similar view to mine - I'm glad some sanity prevails in the Halls of Academia. July 15, 2007 at 09:15 AM. Having trouble reading this image? Poets say this themselves. But there's also something underneath the poem. Book of Philippians Hermes -- she was already lost, Wislawa Szymborska: Hatred (It almost makes you have to look away), Philip Larkin: The Beats: A Few Simple Words, Pablo Neruda: I want to talk with the pigs, Dwindling Domain (Nazim Hikmet: from Living), Marguerite Yourcenar: I Scare Myself: Exploring the Dark Brain of Piranesi's Prisons, Dennis Cowals: Before the Pipeline (Near the End of the Dreamtime). As in FUBAR - fucked up beyond all repair. "...fools in old-atyle hats and coats"Such a comical get-up for the bearers of congenital misery!
I don't know why they get angry, maybe you all could explain to me why you're so angry that someone looked at a poem a little more closely than you want to. Posted by: I read this and laughed because I thought it was a joke! I know a thing or two about biology. 'Fuck you up' has nothing to do with sex - it means 'give you deep psychological problems.' November 17, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Posted by: I love the original analysis. November 17, 2005 at 08:43 PM, Posted by: November 05, 2006 at 11:01 AM, pretty obviously a reference to the favourite English contraceptive method (maybe second to body odour) - withdrawal. You over-analyzed. Eurydike. Yes Ben, everybody knows the UK education system is (largely) screwed but we're still only the 2nd-worst in the developed world. I have read some pretentious, out of whack, literary analysis in my time, but this beats most of it. Write you up. November 15, 2005 at 10:24 PM. September 09, 2013 at 05:30 AM, "The association between up and the notion of approach probably also helps to explain why up is used in various expressions having to do with coming or bringing into existence, such as conjure up an image, dream up an excuse, make up a story, whip up a dessert.". ", > The variation on the theme, coming after the statement and recapitulation, is meant to show the derangement of those who would issue such a call.<. Posted by: I like the analysis regarding biology and I had never thought of it before, always believing it to be the psychological damage many parents cause their children. August 14, 2007 at 02:03 AM, Posted by: …is that the economic left fought insufficiently hard against racism and sexism. October 25, 2007 at 03:21 PM, Your interpretation of the poem does full justice to the Latin phrase which heads your blog: Nescire aude, or "Dare to be ignorant. Man hands on misery to man. Posted by: Posted by: Posted by: What?! Your parents mess up your head (if you must, they beget it into messiness). Am remembering scenes of little boys in wrinkled shirts and skinny ties wrestling in the schoolyard, a nun marching one of them gruffly, by the ear, to Detention. July 15, 2007 at 05:08 AM. Therefore I deduct that you are merely trolling because you would have to be a total idiot to REALLY believe what you wrote about Larkin. This is a classic example of over-analysis of the text, does no one actually think that Larkin might just mean what he's written? March 23, 2012 at 04:44 AM. This church was in the town of Philippi that was situated along the great northern road that ran from the Adriatic Sea coast to the town of Byzantium (later renamed Constantinople and todays Istanbul). In the first one, the poet explains how parents negatively affect children while in the second stanza he talks about past generations, making an implicit comparison between the two. Posted by: What Larkin means by the term is to cause emotional disturbance or psychic distress. If you have ever attended an ACOA Adult Children of Alcoholics meeting, you would know exactly what he is talking about.
December 04, 2007 at 06:48 PM, It was the silent nose that threw me. I do not know of Larkin's background but this poem seems to me to simply be a reflection on his own life! Wow, anybody who claims that "fuck you up" *must* have its meaning confined to its common adage is an idiot. January 10, 2010 at 11:26 PM. (ll. I get it. Okay okay. Each translation is more interesting than the last, especially with Mary Sidney Herbert’s translation of Psalm 52. Michelle | I love this poem. Coral | Year 2015 Please enable JavaScript if you would like to comment on this blog. This allows Larkin to establish a closeness with his readers, now that they know that he is writing for them. 5.1.2 Class-Differing Function 8
Parents, two young lovers. August 24, 2010 at 10:29 PM. ben wolfson | June 19, 2009 at 03:28 PM. standpipe b | Larkin here comments on the sad truth: many children are unwanted. November 28, 2005 at 08:00 PM.
Didn't Larkin live in Hull? Sometimes earlier, sometimes later. Don't you think that Larkin's poem is Swift's idea translated into contemporary English? fuck you up just means to mess you up. Posted by: They fill you with the faults they hadAnd add some extra, just for you. Ben Wolfson | I give my account above; where's yours? They just want to use their experience to help guide our lives to success. The image gives a seriousness and inevitability to a world view that up to that point may appear merely the dyspeptic melancholy of someone who feels he has failed at life -- or, worse, that life has failed him. November 16, 2005 at 01:45 AM. (You might want to interpret this as the poem escaping from his control and passing judgment on him, or some such postmodern confabulation, I suppose; the point is merely that there is this slippage between the formal content and the surface content. amelia | Herbert, however, adds a twist to her translation making it harsher and a bit more personal, rest, or residue. My own opinion is that if Larkin intended the biological theory he also intended the psychological. You dirty....(mumble grumble). 'ben wolfson' was right. As a psychological observation Larkin's thoughts are spot on. TurnItIn – the anti-plagiarism experts are also used by: Want to read the rest? Verses 14 and 16 describe that a woman working hard everywhere is like doing everything that needs to be done. "), Philae Lander: Fade Out / Frantz Fanon: The End of the European Game, No one to rock the cradle (Nazim Hikmet: You must live with great seriousness, like a squirrel), Sophocles: Oedipus the King: On the shore of the god of evening (The chorus prays for deliverance from the plague), Rainer Maria Rilke: Orpheus. Josh | Considering both denotative and connotative meanings of words and phrases is what close reading of poetry demands. Look at his life story, he lived with his parents until far too old. Posted by: January 25, 2008 at 11:31 AM. ben wolfson | We will of course never know exactly if Larkin meant one or both (unless a new document is found in his own hand which is highly unlikely).
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