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1. www.markmcguinness.com › the-whitsun-weddings‘The Whitsun Weddings’: In the Midst of Life We Are in Death

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   By Mark McGuinness 4 Comments. ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ is usually regarded as one of Philip Larkin’s brighter poems: a beautiful evocation of romantic love, with newlyweds riding the train to London against a backdrop of town and country scenes. The visual detail is gorgeous, like a succession of paintings by Constable, Lowry and Beryl Cook.

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   Summary. In the first stanza, the speaker situates the poem on Whitsun, or Whit Sunday, the seventh Sunday after Easter and then a popular time for weddings in Britain. He describes a leisurely hot day on a lonely, “three-quarters-empty” train and begins to detail the sights the train passes by, such as a dock and a river.

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   “The Whitsun Weddings,” the titular poem of a book by the same name, is perhaps the most-discussed poem by Philip Larkin, known as England’s ‘poet laureate of disappointment.’ With eight stanzas of ten lines each, rhyming like Keatsian odes but just the opposite in mood and temperament, “The Whitsun Weddings” is also probably Larkin’s longest poetical work, and the most acclaimed

4. link.springer.com › content › pdfRadical De-essentialism: ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ - Springer

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   Whitsun Weddings’ was ‘inspired by a train journey from Hull to London on 28 May 1955, the Saturday of the Whitsun weekend’.8 As recently as 24 May 2009 the poets Paul Farley and Kate Clanchy repeated the mantra on their BBC Radio 3 programme Children of the Whitsun Weddings, from where it was picked up in the Wikipedia entry on the poem ...

5. www.theguardian.com › books › 2014Larkin's Whitsun Weddings celebrated with 50th-anniversary train...

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   10. Mai 2014 · Sat 10 May 2014 08.58 EDT. It was the train journey that inspired one of Philip Larkin's best-known poems. Half a century after his seminal collection, The Whitsun Weddings, was published, the ...

6. link.springer.com › chapter › 10The Whitsun Weddings | SpringerLink

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   Abstract. In his middle age Larkin became more aware of the essence of existence and the problem of time. Time keeps on pressing heavily upon his thinking as he observes the change, mostly for the worse, taking place everywhere around him. By capturing moments of dissatisfaction with life, Larkin introduces in ‘Mr Bleaney’ a remarkable ...

7. link.springer.com › chapter › 10From Austerity to Affluence: The Whitsun Weddings

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   Abstract. In the ten-year interval between The Less Deceived (1955) and The Whitsun Weddings (1964), the social and economic circumstances of post-war Britain had altered significantly. By the mid 1950s, the rationing of most major foodstuffs had ended, new employment opportunities were created, export targets were achieved and credit was ...