If By Philip Larkin Analysis

ANALYSIS OF AUBADE BY PHILIP LARKIN

Philip Arthur Larkin was born in 1922. He died at the beginning of December 1985. His life therefore comprises a childhood in the 1920s, the stock-market crash and the Great Depression, the rise of Nazism and international tension in the 1930s, the second World War, postwar reconstruction and expansion. It is so natural, therefore, that, in keeping with the pronounced shifts in the political, economic, cultural and philosophical adaptations of the society he lived in, his poetry demonstrates a development in aspects of theme, attitude, and style from one volume of his poems to next. Furthermore, to make a coherent narrative of Larkin’s life his education and work life should be regarded.
His father sent

The next, and final, collection of poems came ten years later The Whitsun Weddings: High Windows was published in1974. In the final decade of his life, Larkin finished few poems. These varied from ‘Bridge for the living’ the words of a cantata commissioned to celebrate the opening of the Humber Bridge and performed. He was always obsessed with the thought of death, Larkin began to write his last major poem, ‘Aubade’. It appeared in the Times Literary Supplement in 1977. Actually he had begun the poem in 1974, the year that his final collection High Windows appeared, but he laid it aside and returned to it three years later, in the summer of 1977. But it was the death of Larkin’s mother, in November of that year, that seems to have inspired him to finish the poem. Yet the poem is about Larkin’s death first and foremost, and offers a stark and harrowing vision of human mortality. As his private letters indicate that this poem not only anticipates his own death. Thus, death could be one of themes of the poem. As an introduction for poetry, it could be seen that there is a ‘speaker’ who introduces himself in the first line: ‘ I work all day, and get half drunk at night’. In the above commentary on ‘Aubade’ it should be focused readers’ attention on the poem’s demonstrative failure to state death, and the philosophic limits that are revealed by the speaker’s

The word initially has two meanings: first meaning is a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak. Second meaning is a poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn. But looking at Larkin’s ‘Aubade’ is somewhat difference which provides a bitter slant on the tradition, focusing on bleak thoughts of death as dawn approaches so this poem portrays pessimistic tone but rather to mildly put forward an objection to the way critics have overstressed Larkin’s nihilism. People are conscious individuals from born to death, and there is an inevitable fact, at the same time this is an inconsistency between consciousness of people, the sense of existence, and the whole universe that ignores human-beings. Providing that this inconsistency, in other words lack of proportion, is one of the characteristics of human life depicted as ‘absurd’ by philosophers in the early part of the 20th century. In its struggles with the discrepancy between personal consciousness and death, in this way ‘Aubade’ is a poem that confronts the absurd. “Aubade” can be also regarded as an essence text that openly exemplifies the severe diversions between the Movement in terms of language and technique and modernist