Afternoons Flashcards
What is the tone of the poem Afternoons?
It is a melancholic tone
Key quotes in afternoons
The title ‘afternoons
‘Summer is fading’
‘Young mothers’ ‘hollow’ ‘assemble’
‘their beauty has thickened’
‘to the side of their own lives’
Significance of the title
Suggests the end of the day and time passing
‘Summer is fading’
Poem has a sense of longing for the past
‘Their beauty has thickened’
Time passing developing. aging.
‘To the side of their own lives’
-Implication that their lives are rules by their children.
-‘Young mothers’ -‘Assemble’
Suggests a sense of routine and boredom creating a sense of emptiness.
Context of afternoons
-Phillip Larkin’s poetry celebrates the ordinary details of day to day life
-Larkin never married, had children or even left the UK in his whole life.
