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'Afternoons' - Philip Larkin
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'Afternoons' - Philip Larkin He was a man who was fearful of death and disliked any travelling abroad. He was a reclusive man who kept the curtains drawn to keep the sun from fading his books. He dies in 1985; he was to have all his diaries shredded. In the poem he writes he often seems like an outsider observing people's lives, as in this poem where he is watching mothers and their children in a play area. The poem is set out in three stanzas. The first stanza the poet is explaining how the parent's youth is fading by the opening line. The lives of the young mothers are a very safe. This is because they are situated in a very safe area, with other mothers. They live in a safe community because it says in the last two lines of the first stanza "At swing and sandpit Setting free their children" This...
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