Afternoons 1959 * Flashcards

Philip Larkin - love and relationship, passage of time, change and transformation, sense of place

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context

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paras if given

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paras for comaprison - cozy apologia

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  • both describe everyday day, ordinary lives
  • afternoon pesimistic, cozy somewhat hopeful throiughout
  • “affect of growing up on relationships/love”
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para 1 for comparison

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both describe everyday love:
- “Our wedding, lying near the television”
- “young mothers assemble”
- “an estatefull of washing”
- “behind them, at interval,”
- “stand husbands in skilled trades”
- “and their children … expect to be taken home”

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para 2

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pessimistic:
- “summer fading”
- “trees bordering”
- “hollows of afternoons”
- “setting free their children”
- “wind is ruining their courting-places”

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para 3

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affect of growing in relationships/love:
- “sumemr is fading”
- “ou wedding lying near the television”
- “wind is ruining their courting places”
- “something is pushing them to the side of their own lives”

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