Tuesday 18 March 2014

Last Visit to 198 Cathedral Road

Abse is revisiting a place full of memories this place is the house where his parents used to live before they both passed away. 'living room,did I say? Dying room, rather' this shows similar themes to which some we have seen in Larkin's such as death. Here you can see that this is about death. In stanza to the objects off the house are personified. 'the vase that yawned hideously' it is almost symbolizing the loss of the parent I think here it is the mother that has passed and all her belongings just shows the loneliness and how everything is left how it was before the death. We see similarities within other poems of Abse 'surgeons pocket torch' here it is similar to the poem 'A Winter Visit' because there he mentions the white coat and how he inhabits this coat so his dad is obviously a surgeon and he is finding all their old belongings.

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