Philip larkin born yesterday analysis

I found this essay here and thought it might be useful. 

Philip Larkin and Happiness  On "Born Yesterday"

For those familiar with Philip Larkin&#;s work, the title of this short essay will seem to offer a juxtaposition so improbable as to be laugh-out-loud funny&#;rather 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, we&#;re most likely to think of poems in which happiness is mentioned as an absence&#;as in the narrator&#;s rueful longing in &#;High Windows&#; for &#;everyone young going down the long slide / To happiness, endlessly.&#; I don&#;t want to suggest that Larkin&#;s poetry gives us glimpses of joy with anything resembling regularity.

But I think that the topic of happiness&#;what it is, how to attain and cultivate it&#;is cruci