A Poetic Record of Life

Suping TIAN

Abstract


Presented here is a discussion of the poet Philip Larkin, with regard to his poetry as a truthful record of life. Simple and even childish as Larkin’s poetry may seem, it is quite often astonishingly complicated and profound, which is actually life itself.


Keywords


Philip Larkin; Collected Poems; Simplicity and preciseness

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References


Bedient, C. (1974). Eight contemporary poets (p.80). London: Oxford University Press.

Larkin, P. (2003). Collected Poems. UK: Faber & Faber.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/n

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