Critics for Larkin Flashcards
(13 cards)
Larkin’s poetry records a _________ disappointment in ________.” _______
perpetual/ disappointment
MOTION
“Larkin writes with _______ disenchantment, where all roads lead to ________.”________
post war/ disappointment
HEANEY
His poetry “combines the mundane with the _______, the ordinary with the ________.” _________
profound/ universal
MOTION
Larkin as a “_________, emotionally-retarded ________ who had the impudence to _______ his own fears and _________ to the way things are.” ______
death-obsessed/ misanthropist / generalise/ failings
EAGLETON
“his poems are far from _____ in the face of _______ existence or even death, but express a need to ______ and manipulate life.”______
passive/ predetermined/ control
MOTION
“we do not only receive the ______, but the whole process of _____, which can be very _____ occasional matter.”______
conclusion/ reflection/ jumpy
PUNTER
“constantly torn between wanting to be _____, to be _____ and to have children and the even stronger ____ of wanting to be _____.”________
conventional/ married/desire/ alone
JONES
“Larkin _____ his social ______ by adopting a position of insightful ______ over his subjects”______
exploits/ remoteness/ superiority
COX
” his poems make us aware of the _______ of fantasy and _____”
impenetration / reality
SWARBRICK
“habitually ____ between _____ and orthodoxy”
torn/ revolt
MOTION
“he is preeminently a poet of _______”
loneliness
PUNTER
“Larkin wrote of failures and remorse of age about ______ lives and ______”
stunted/ desires
MCLATCHY
