Toads Revisited

'Toads' is used as a metaphor for work. Despite how little Larkin/ The persona here despises work they do not want to be someone who doesn't work. Work is the routine lifestyle and Larkin doesn't like being without routine so the work gives him a purpose and groundness without it he would probably go mad so the reason he doesn't want to be without work is so he has that solid daily routine. I think also he thinks if he doesn't have a job he will think of himself as a failure almost because he uses words such as 'stupid or weak' to describe those people that are without work. He doesn't want to be weak or stupid because at the moment he is the total opposite. This poem is the answer to the poem 'Days' and it is a positive poem choice.