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GCSE: Philip Larkin

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17 GCSE Philip Larkin essays

'A Study of Reading Habits' by Philip Larkin Critical Essay
- Essay length: 854 words
- Submitted: 10/12/2011
This be the verse commentary
- Essay length: 820 words
- Submitted: 10/03/2010
ILLUSION VS REALITY
- Essay length: 1117 words
- Submitted: 03/04/2008
An Arundel Tomb
- Essay length: 945 words
- Submitted: 18/08/2006
Larkin has been criticised for a lack of sympathy in his poetry. Based on your reading of the Whitsun Weddings collection of poems, how fair is this criticism.
- Essay length: 1625 words
- Submitted: 01/11/2004
Biography - Philip Larkin (1922-85).
- Essay length: 860 words
- Submitted: 18/02/2004
How Larkin Portrays The Past and Attitudes To It In MCMXIV and Home Is So Sad.
- Essay length: 841 words
- Submitted: 04/02/2004
What interests you about Larkin's use of language and verse form in three of the poems you have studied so far?
- Essay length: 4637 words
- Submitted: 02/02/2004
My transformation of Philip Larkin's first-person adult poem, 'Mr Bleaney' into a third and first person short story for a similar audience.
- Essay length: 1658 words
- Submitted: 12/12/2003
Examine Philip Larkins view of love and relationships expressed in his poems in The Whitsun Weddings.
- Essay length: 4654 words
- Submitted: 19/11/2003

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Conclusion analysis

Good conclusions usually refer back to the question or title and address it directly - for example by using key words from the title.
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Choose two poems in which Larkin explores places, Discuss his use of language, form and structure and the attitudes he explores towards the subject (Here & The Importance of Elsewhere).

"Both poems conclusively point to the same thing, and therefore both have similar endings. The Fact that Larkin is not a people person and views himself as a "person in the shade"(w w) is suggested by the endings of both "Here" and "The Importance of Elsewhere" where Larkin ends up alone or talking about a place where he can be alone. "Here" sees Larkin travel on a long train journey to end up in "unfenced existence", "out of sight" and "out of reach", many argue, this is as Larkin would prefer. However, "The Importance of Elsewhere" talks of how Larkin feels strange away from home as he does at home, and stresses the importance of elsewhere, where "no elsewhere underwrites" Larkin's "existence"."

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GCSE: Philip Larkin

17 GCSE Philip Larkin essays

'A Study of Reading Habits' by Philip Larkin Critical Essay

This be the verse commentary

ILLUSION VS REALITY

An Arundel Tomb

Larkin has been criticised for a lack of sympathy in his poetry. Based on your reading of the Whitsun Weddings collection of poems, how fair is this criticism.

Biography - Philip Larkin (1922-85).

How Larkin Portrays The Past and Attitudes To It In MCMXIV and Home Is So Sad.

What interests you about Larkin's use of language and verse form in three of the poems you have studied so far?

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

Examine Philip Larkins view of love and relationships expressed in his poems in The Whitsun Weddings.

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