Sunny Prestatyn

This poem contains casual sexism because back when this poem is set sexism wasn't such an unknown thing and it was more allowed than what it would be now. You could say this poem is about the distaste Larkin has towards the modern world or the sexist vandalism that we have going on throughout. The poem contains this laddish language which shows that probably the graffiti was done by some child. The language in the last few sentences of the second stanza is emphasizing how degrading this vandalism is. The person who has done this vandalism is almost proud of this work how he has signed his name onto it. The way the poem is written is violent ' stab' and 'knife' is how he has destroyed this poster and I imagine there to be very little of the poster left. 'Now the fight cancer is there' Next poster is a poster about cancer, cancer targets people and destroys them just like someone has destroyed the poster of the women. Back when this poem was written it was shown that women were more vulnerable than men which is probably why the women was on the poster because they are easier to target.