I agree with you. Larkin is brave and brilliant, but rather than illuminating the dark he's casting a beam of shadow into the daylight....It's depressing.
We should dedicate a week to joy-full poems and poetry!
Excellent idea! Not that I can think of many poets I like who don't sound like they'd benefit from sectioning and anti-psychotics. Even the more upbeat works are tinged with melancholy, but ain't that just like life.
rather than illuminating the dark he's casting a beam of shadow into the daylight Perfectly expressed, though. Congrats. What a poetic Prince of Darkness he was. I bet he enjoyed doing it. I bet that impassive face managed to crack a teeny smirk, glinting through the specs, as he enforced a term's worth of library fines on some poor Hull undergrad.
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Good, though. The poor little bugger. Larkin the Hog Slaughterer!
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We should dedicate a week to joy-full poems and poetry!
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rather than illuminating the dark he's casting a beam of shadow into the daylight
Perfectly expressed, though. Congrats. What a poetic Prince of Darkness he was. I bet he enjoyed doing it. I bet that impassive face managed to crack a teeny smirk, glinting through the specs, as he enforced a term's worth of library fines on some poor Hull undergrad.
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