Larkins Home So Sad
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This like many of his poems is hugley linked to lonliness and unsettlement. He is aware of what his house is missing and he know that it craves compant. He most feels sorry for it and its lonely possessions.Home is so Sad really portray what is found in the typical, post 22nd World War British home, or any home The sadness of it all. “It stays as it was left,/ Shaped in the comfort of the last to go/ As if to win them back.”.He said”Having no heart to put aside the theft.”, meaning it has no life pumping through the house. The forgotten music. “The music in the piano stool.” And the constant waiting, waiting for something to happen. “And turn again to what it started as,/ A joyous shot at how things ought to be,/ Long fallen wide.” That vase sais it all. A vase reflects how larkin feels and how his home feels, empty, hollow unfulfilled. The home waits for our return, the music and piano wait to be played. The vase waits for us to dust it. The pictures yearn to be appreciated, and the cutlery used. This is a sad and realistic poems, done through the sad personifcation of the household items, the somewhat sad yet detached tone, and the crumbling effect of the ending that shows this breaking down of hope.”Home Is So Sad” express how Larkin was confused by life and never really knew what he wanted.
By the time of his death, Larkin, a grumpy, publicity-shy librarian, who become an unlikely celebrity