Home Is So Sad

The house in this poem is personified. The whole feeling of the home is negative and by calling it a home, a home is meant to be a happy place full of memories. 'Make a house a home.' The owner is no longer in the house they have either moved out or passed away there was no clue. Just shows that life is full of disappointment you start off with all this expectation just to be let down. The poem connects to Mr Bleaneys room where it is full of sadness and negativity.

Mr Bleaney

Mr Bleaney is a poem that has shared experiences of those of Mr Bleaney and the persona. The rhyme scheme of the poem is simple just like the life that Mr Bleaney lives so I think that Larkin thought about this carefully so that it did represent this. Mr Bleaney is a man that has no purpose and doesn't really like the thought of change. Throughout the poem I get the feeling of him being negative about everything in his life. Even with the change he doesn't like it he just does it because he has no other choice.

Reference Back

The poem is about the connection a mother and her son have through a song. This poem has connections to both broadcast and Dockery and Son. The connection it has with broadcast is they aren't together but yet when they hear the music they both share the same experience and the connection with Dockery and Son is that the son hasn't thought about life choices. He is 30 and still living at home and hasn't been able to do the things most people have done by his age.

For Sydney Bechet

This poem is about jazz music. Sydney Bechet is a famous jazz artist and one that Larkin liked. This poem is about the days where jazz music was the big thing. It goes into depth of Larking love for music. 'On me your voice falls as they say love should' to him music is better than love because he shows this connection and feeling towards music as people say it feels when you fall in love he explains that connection with the music he listens to.

Love songs in age

The poem love songs in age is about a women who had loved to listen and play music when she was younger and over time they had been forgotten about but she soon unravels them and along with them memories come flooding back. I enjoyed reading this poem because i like the way Larkin describes her happiness when she finds her music again. "spring woken tree" just makes me feel of new life and spring and gives off a happy feeling because it shows her love for her music has just came back again. Also makes you feel happy for her because you know how much she loved to play and again she can almost relive her youth.

Broadcast

In this poem I thought that it had connection with Talking in bed. In the way that it was quite a discreet love story. He shows very intimate feelings towards the girl who he is writing this poem to. Its almost as if he can feel her presence and although they aren't together they can share the same experience. The person in this poem he is yearning for like the saying goes "absence makes the heart grow fonder" I think this sums up exactly how Larkin/ the persona feels.

Wild Oats

In this poem i found that Larkin was talking about a personal situation by again using a persona. He shows Very limiting stereotypes towards the girls and is quite shallow. This poem is written in a dramatic monologue and shows his unluckiness with women. I found this poem quite easy to understand as you could see it was something that was quite personal to himself.