Dockery and Son

Here you can see the shock to the persona and how he isn't bothered about his life choice. Everyone else seems to be having kids and settling down with a family. Although it isn't Larkin who this poem is about its the persona you almost get the attitude that maybe it is written about Larkin himself but you cant say because it is unknown. The persona is perceived as being very different from the rest of the people his age. Everyone else has grown up and moved on with their life but he hasn't. The poem is about a man called Dockery a man who he had met at university and now his son is at the very same university shows the time change and how everyone makes different life choices made for themselves.