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Phillip Larkin 'Seeing and being seen is a main theme throughout Larkins collection High Windows' explore this theme
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Seeing and being seen is a main theme throughout Larkin's 'High Windows' collection. Comment on the role of such images in 3 poems in the collection. In this collection there is a running theme of seeing and being seen. The first poem I will refer to whilst exploring this idea is 'High Windows'. In this poem Larkin appears to be watching the younger generation, this was written at a time when the pill had just been invented and Larkin is shown to have resentment or jealousy for this vicarious freedom. The crude language used in the first stanza gives this impression; 'When I see a couple of kids And I guess he's fucking her...' This language along with the harsh 'k' sound throughout the stanza shows the bitterness and his longing for the freedom the younger generation have. 'I know this is paradise' shows the desire he feels. Larkin throughout many of his...
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