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jazzy_davePhilip Larkin "The Whitsun Weddings" (Faber & Faber)
These poems have a very down-to-earth and modest clarity, in the way they describe such ordinary events and lives with beauty and sympathy. Larkin's observations make the ordinary seem extraordinary. The poem 'The Whitsun Weddings' describes a train journey from Hull to London, on a hot Saturday, where at each passing station, newlyweds are boarding the train and the wedding parties waving them off. It describes the common, ordinary details of weddings: the emotion, the gaudy outfits, the embarrassing family, but also the strangely epic nature of marriage and the course it sets people on together: 'this frail/ Travelling coincidence; and what it held/ Stood ready to be loosed with all the power/ That being changed can give.'
Personally, I would recommend this book to others who enjoy reading for reflections of life, or if you are intrigued to learn more about the poet, Larkin.
There are many sites that allow you to access his poetry for a taster and I highly recommend Arundel Tomb, Afternoons, The Whitsun Weddings, Love songs In Age, and Mr. Bleaney.
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These poems have a very down-to-earth and modest clarity, in the way they describe such ordinary events and lives with beauty and sympathy. Larkin's observations make the ordinary seem extraordinary. The poem 'The Whitsun Weddings' describes a train journey from Hull to London, on a hot Saturday, where at each passing station, newlyweds are boarding the train and the wedding parties waving them off. It describes the common, ordinary details of weddings: the emotion, the gaudy outfits, the embarrassing family, but also the strangely epic nature of marriage and the course it sets people on together: 'this frail/ Travelling coincidence; and what it held/ Stood ready to be loosed with all the power/ That being changed can give.'
Personally, I would recommend this book to others who enjoy reading for reflections of life, or if you are intrigued to learn more about the poet, Larkin.
There are many sites that allow you to access his poetry for a taster and I highly recommend Arundel Tomb, Afternoons, The Whitsun Weddings, Love songs In Age, and Mr. Bleaney.
Thanks
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