Tag: Larkin
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Robert Louis Stevenson and Philip Larkin
Things aren’t necessarily all they may seem to be at first sight. Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem is beautifully written, ‘mellifluous’ comes to mind, and the sentiments seem noble and praiseworthy. The conventional Victorian would doubtless have approved. You and I, however, might notice a little play with words. In line 2, ‘grave‘, a noun, is…
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A Hedgehog and Covid 19
One of my recent posts was about Robert Burns’s poem “To a Mouse”, whose nest has just been dug up by his ploughshare. In Philip Larkin’s case, it’s a hedgehog and a mower. In neither case was a crime committed ‘with malice aforethought’. Burns was giving his field a plough, and Larkin was giving his…
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