Philip Larkin

The poem ‘Church Going’ represents the thoughts of the poet as he enters a church. He is an agnostic but accepts the importance of religion in human culture. In the poem, the speaker questions the utility of churches and hence religion in our life and also seems to make anContinue Reading

An aubade, deriving from the medieval French word for dawn, is a lyric poem with no prescribed form in which the poet typically celebrates the beauty of his mistress as the sun rises and he must leave her bed: John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” is a well-known example. Philip Larkin’sContinue Reading

An “aubade” is a morning love song (it is the opposite of a serenade, which takes place in the evening). Sometimes it is written about when lover’s separate at dawn. Or, as in this poem, a song or poem announcing dawn; the lover in this scenario is death, when theContinue Reading

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) was one of the most significant English poets of the 20th century, renowned for his poignant, ironic, and often melancholic reflections on modern life. Born in Coventry, England, Larkin studied at Oxford University and later became a librarian, a profession he held for over three decades atContinue Reading