Larkin returned again and again to a study of the loner, the man outside society. Referring to three poems you have studied explore this theme
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Larkin returned again and again to a study of the loner, the man outside society. Referring to three poems you have studied explore this theme Philip Larkin studies, in detail, the life of the loner in three of his poems Mr Bleaney, Self's the Man and Dockery and Son. The three poems are amazingly different when one considers that they are essentially around the same topic. A question that can be asked is why did Larkin produce so many pieces of work on loners. Could it be that he was portraying himself in his work, or was it that he was simply trying to express himself through his work. Whatever the reason is, it is plain to see that Larkin saw the topic of loners as one in which he could write comprehensive pieces of poetry. Mr Bleaney, Self's the Man and Dockery and Son are all set in very different...

