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You need to be able to appreciate bleakness if you hope to enjoy Larkin. My favorite of his poems is Mr Bleaney, in which the speaker rents a cheap and depressi
by thedailymail 4y ago
You need to be able to appreciate bleakness if you hope to enjoy Larkin. My favorite of his poems is Mr Bleaney, in which the speaker rents a cheap and depressing room and wonders if his predecessor (Mr Bleaney) thought about what ending up in such a room reveals about the life choices and character of the renter (with the implication that the speaker is asking himself the same question).
Larkin packs a lot of bleakness into those 28 lines - highly recommended!
- vixen99 4y agoIf you need even more, try Aubade.
- ycombinete 4y agoIf you enjoy the bleakness of Larkin, I suggest reading John Cheever's journals. They've always felt to me like the Larkin-voice for the middle class of the same generation, in the USA.
- returningfory2 4y agoIn that poem I love the description of the room as "one hired box" - always evokes a coffin in my mind.
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