A winter Visit

In this poem we see similarities to Larkin's work as it talks about many of the similar things we have seen throughout his poems. Such as death, love and life. The poem talks about age 'now she's ninety I walk through the local park where, too cold' I think the coldness explained could be death. He uses 'cold' and 'dark' similarly like Larkin when he uses feelings to represent death. The persona in the poem talks about how quickly time passes and uses places such as the park to trigger memories. The idea of the white coat suggests that the persona is a doctor or scientist. The poem shows someone being emotionless 'am not qualified to weep' doesn't want to cry or cannot cry.