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Poetry Of Departures Larkin
Within Poetry of Departures” by Philip Larkin, the unknown speaker,who is conflicted between living a conventional and mundane life or a carefree and nomadic one, goes back and forth inside his mind debating whether is it worth leaving the life he currently has to be able to experience complete freedom. We can see this internal struggle through the way in which Larkin uses diction with positive connotations to describe the positive outcomes and scenarios that were to happen if the reader were to start a new life, and negative connotations to describe what would happen if the speaker were to continue to live his life as is. Larkin clearly feels much more passionate about living a carefree life because he consistently highlights how much more liberating and satisfying it is to just leave your current life behind and start anew. …show more content…
The speaker struggles with if whether his current life has any meaning and within the poem when contemplating leaving the speaker's emotions as described as leaving “me flushed and stirred, Like Then she did her her dress,” which shows us that the idea of living carefree life excites the reader and that he has contemplated this fantasy before but reality has gotten in the way and he does not know how he can make his dream manifest in real
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