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Title: Philip Larkin - Days
Description: Analysis of the poem Days by Philip Larkin - notes i made before writing my A Level coursework
Description: Analysis of the poem Days by Philip Larkin - notes i made before writing my A Level coursework
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Days
“Days” by Philip Larkin was written in 1953 and included in his collection,
“The Whitsun Weddings” in 1964
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The poem shows a realistic and simplistic view of a person’s life and the
progression through the days in which we live
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The monosyllabic lexis is used to portray the simplicity of life and how it is
fragile, that time is such an intangible thing and yet will eventually become
the end of everyone’s life
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Shows the narrators attitude towards life; that it is relatively unimportant but
also that it is a statement of fact, like it does not need explanation because
it is obvious
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Although Larkin never
actually uses the word ‘death’ it is alluded to as the end of our days
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’ During the war if
someone was pronounced dead on the battlefield a doctor would be called
to confirm the death and a priest would have to be present to pay the final
respects
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The medial caesura found in the first stanza, ‘they come, they wake us’ is
not found in the second stanza, however the initial caesura is used in the
first line as though the narrator is taking a breath before completing his
train of thought
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There is a pattern to the first stanza but not to the second
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Ending the first stanza with a rhetorical question
allows for the answer to follow in the second stanza and to change the tone
of the poem by doing so
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The third and fourth lines explore the semantic field of
time within the poem, ‘wake us’ as if waking from a long time spent
sleeping, also ‘time and time over’ makes direct reference to time its self,
using repetition to express how constant time is
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The positive language in the first stanza when talking about life and the
passing of time during the days where we live shows a favourable attitude
to life
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Having the first stanza positive makes the impact of the
death in the second stanza all the more chilling and real to the reader
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Title: Philip Larkin - Days
Description: Analysis of the poem Days by Philip Larkin - notes i made before writing my A Level coursework
Description: Analysis of the poem Days by Philip Larkin - notes i made before writing my A Level coursework