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Philip Larkin: Art and Self: Five Studies by M. Rowe

By M. Rowe

Exploring the advanced courting among aesthetic adventure and private identification in Larkin's paintings, this publication supplies shut and unique readings of 3 significant poems ('Here', 'Livings' and 'Aubade'), and overlooked yet vital issues (Larkin and the supernatural, Larkin and Flaubert).

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But the apparent change in ‘Here’ from a first-person to an impersonal point of view produces a destabilizing and slightly magical effect. Initially, still clinging to the idea we are reading a first-person narrative, we envisage someone on a vaguely imagined train journey (for example) to Hull. But once we reach Hull, the momentum of the journey appears to continue, and we seem to follow the movement of a man, or possibly a disembodied consciousness, through the city and out to the coast. By this stage, all thought as to how this journey is accomplished seems both forgotten and irrelevant.

The effect and shock is heightened by two further features. The first is rhythm. e. with a first unstressed syllable), and the two lines about the residents from raw estates are as close as the poem comes to a perfect pair of pentameters: And residents from raw estates, brought down The dead straight miles by stealing flat-faced trolleys, 28 Philip Larkin: Art and Self ˘–˘–˘–˘–˘– ˘–˘–˘–˘–˘–˘ For the first time in the poem, here are two nearly perfect lines, suggesting ease and untrammelled motion.

22 One’s first thought is that ‘Swerving east …’ is an adjective phrase and that it will be followed by the sentence’s grammatical subject and a finite verb. Perhaps ‘Swerving east, … I see the town … ,’ or ‘Swerving east, … the train begins to slow …’. But reading the first sentence through, no obvious grammatical subject presents itself. One’s next thought is that ‘gathers’, the first word of the second stanza, must be the finite verb, and one looks back to discover what ‘gathers’. An obvious idea is that all the places, persons, animals and objects mentioned up to now, gather to the surprise of a large town.

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