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In what way could ‘The Trees’ be considered the key to the entire collection?
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In what way could 'The Trees' be considered the key to the entire collection? 'The Trees' is about nature and its cyclical structure, in the first stanza Larkin is a detached observer, simply watching the cycle of a trees life as he also does for a fine sunny day in 'Cut Grass.' Initially Larkin appears to be admiring the nature of a trees lifespan, yet as the poem progress' it appears that the poem is riddled with personification of leaves and buds. The trees are brought to life, onomatopoeias such as 'afresh' and 'thresh' cause sound effects of the wind rushing through the trees, except to Larkin this is the wind of change. This wind brings to mind the passage of change, life and death, a key issue in which shows in Larkin's poems again and again. Larkin's greatest fear haunts him and this a shown greatly in all his poems,...
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