Tag: Requiem

• 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…

  calgacus83

  18th Feb 2021

  Literature, Poetry

  Irony, Larkin, Requiem, Stevenson, Supernovae