Philip Larkin’s The Whitsun Weddings Essay -- Whitsun Weddings

Philip Larkins The Whitsun Weddings As I was rendering Philip Larkins The Whitsun Weddings, I was initially struck by the difference mingled with his use of language and the language used by many of the poets we enjoin earlier in the course. The difference between the language of the two W.B. Yeats poesys we wrote near previously and this poem by Larkin was particularly striking. Of course, the use of language changed slowly, with each poet we have read between Yeats and Larkin becoming less manage the antecedent and more than like the latter. But, I suppose I noticed it more in this poem because I was paying more attention to eventidet in order to comment on the poem. The speaker of this poem is on a train headed south to London for a long weekend, and begins his/her move around on a Saturday afternoon. It is a late spring or even early summer day, as it is seven weeks after Easter (fn. 1061). Initially, the capacity of the poem is rather simple, but the language and des cription are quite rich. Larkin appeals to four of the five senses and makes his reader olfactory perception as if they are on the train with the speaker. As I read the poem, I felt like I could hear the train pull out of the station and feel the heat of the cushions under my legs. Then I was seeing the blinding windscreens and flavour the fish-dock. As the poem and the rich description continued, I was then flavour at canals with floatings of industrial froth and... ...es ahead of them. On the other hand, the bound there swelled / A sense of falling could be describing their moderate doubts that maybe their families were right and they are making a mistake. Since the poem ends on that more somber note of a sense of falling, we leave the poem feeling that the ending will not be happy for these saucily married couples. We are full of the beauty of the land as depict by the speaker, as well as the dreariness of the future as the people in the poem see it. What started out as a fairly upbeat and happy poem leaves you with a sense of discouragement and impending doom. Works Cited Urdang, Laurence, ed. The American Century Dictionary. New York Oxford UP, 1995.