The whole thing, leading up to this, is interesting, & I feel rather
accurate, Dominic. Thanks.
Doug
On 11-Aug-09, at 2:56 PM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> Poetry here is not the sublimation of
> erotic urges, or "emotion recollected in tranquility", but rather a
> usurping power, rooted in privation: the poet as Larkin presents him
> in this poem is not an especially sensitive individual, but rather an
> especially desensitised one (although unwaveringly sensitive to his
> own condition). It is a studiously unappealing portrait, and I am
> rather inclined to take it as a warning; which may after all be how it
> was meant.
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