Larkin AO5

Question 1

Saddest heart in

Answer 1

the post war supermarket
Eric homberger

Here, TWW, 1914, Ambulances, Sunny Prestatyn, Arundel Tomb

Question 2

His writing is driven

Answer 2

by a sense of failure
Andrew swarbrick

Mr bleaney, love songs, faith healing, toad revisited, selfs the man, dockery and son, essential beauty, send no money, talking in bed

Question 3

Larkin presents himself as a

Answer 3

Sceptical less deceived observer of contemporary life
James Naremore

An arundel tomb, essential beauty, dockery and son, tww, sunny Prestatyn, the large cool store, selfs the msn, here, love songs in age, faith healing

Question 4

Larkin’s interest in images is drawn from advertising because they reoreeeng

Answer 4

Society’s collective desires and aspirations
Andrew Swarbrick

Here, the large cool store, essential beauty, sunny Prestatyn,

Question 5

Larkin is a hopeless and

Answer 5

inflexible pessimist
Bryan Appleyard

Mr bleaney, love songs, toads revisited, faith healing, ambulances, selfs the man, sunny Prestatyn, arundel tomb, send no money, talkin inbed

Question 6

Defeated by time and

Answer 6

His own inadequacies

Send no money, Mr bleaney, selfs the man, dockery and son,

Question 7

Larkin is a

Answer 7

easy misogynist

Love songs in age, faith healing,sunny Prestatyn, the large cool store,

Question 8

Larkin’s atheism was

Answer 8

unflinching, courageous

Booth

Ambulances, Faith healing, water

Question 9

Larkin’s main fear was that if he got married

Answer 9

He would end up imitating his psrents misery
Andrew motion

Mr bleaney, selfs the man, dockery and son, send no money, arundel tomb, talking in bed

Question 10

His poems depict a thought process

Answer 10

that attempts to reach a conclusion
Lunn

Here, Mr Bleaney, Faith Healing, the whitsun weddings, dockery and son, send no money , selfs the man

Question 11

Had great love for

Answer 11

His country and his culture
Leo cox

Here, 1914, Toads revisited

Question 12

Often seems to rise to

Answer 12

A higher plane - to go elsewhere
Dowling

Here, For Sidney bechet,reference back, ambulances,

Question 13

Hardy-esque

Answer 13

Cynicism

Here, Mr Bleaney, Love songs in age, faith healing, water, ambulances, sunny Prestatyn, Arundel tomb

Question 14

Work offers a distinctive flavour

Answer 14

Of post war England
Booth

Sunny Prestatyn, Naturally the foundation, Toads revisited, 1914, essential beauty, large cool store

Question 15

An advocate for misanthropy

Answer 15

And pessimism
Brian appleyard

Here, Naturally the foundation,

Question 16

Larkin seldomly presents himself as

Answer 16

anything but an onlooker

James naremore

Question 17

Spiritual desolation of a a world where men

Answer 17

have shed last rags of religious faith