Philip larkin born yesterday analysis
Philip larkin born yesterday analysis
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I found this essay here and thought it might be useful.
Philip Larkin and Happiness On "Born Yesterday" |
For those familiar with Philip Larkins work, the title of this short essay will seem to offer a juxtaposition so improbable as to be laugh-out-loud funnyrather like that old joke staple, the tiny book titled German Humor, or the admittedly unlikely prospect of a panel at a New Formalist conference on The Achievement of the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E Poets. Indeed, if we do associate the word with Larkin, were most likely to think of poems in which happiness is mentioned as an absenceas in the narrators rueful longing in High Windows for everyone young going down the long slide / To happiness, endlessly. I dont want to suggest that Larkins poetry gives us glimpses of joy with anything resembling regularity.
But I think that the topic of happinesswhat it is, how to attain and cultivate itis cruci