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With close reference to 2 or 3 poems in 'The Whitsun Weddings', discuss the view that Larkin always finds life a disappointment.
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With close reference to 2 or 3 poems in 'The Whitsun Weddings', discuss the view that Larkin always finds life a disappointment. Philip Larkin wrote a great collection of poems of varying themes. These range from religion to the past to people. However a lot of his poems all have a common moral. It seems that at the end of his poems he reflects on the theme in his poem and finds a hidden meaning which relates to life in general. Most of these 'morals' however seem to show that he has found something very disappointing as a result. Some of his poems are also just reflections on something about life whether it's to short or not worth it. 'Days' by Philip Larkin is a short poem which questions the nature of our existence. It talks about time passing and asks "what are days for?" He answers this question by say...
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