My transformation of Philip Larkin's first-person adult poem, 'Mr Bleaney' into a third and first person short story for a similar audience.

... Text Transformation: Commentary My transformation of Philip Larkin's first-person adult poem, 'Mr Bleaney' into a third and first person short story for a similar audience was both rewarding and challenging. Being appreciative of Larkin's work prior to this exercise, I selected the aforementioned piece and 'Here' from a collection of poetry. I made the choice to transform these texts as they to relate to one another in cultural context; namely the working class in the post war period. I was also intrigued by how brightly Larkin's personal view shone through, as 'Mr Bleaney' and 'Here', like a lot of his other work portrays a Spartan view of the working class, for example 'raw estates'. To magnify this, I have named the narrator in the latter part of my piece Philip Smith (a relatively non-descript surname, which makes a link to Mr Bleaney's non-descript life, and the poet's forename which makes a

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