Hello
friends,
During my
graduation I studied a poem “Wants” by Philip Larkin. I would like to
share a small blog on this poem.
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922 –1985) was an English poet,
novelist and
librarian.
Beyond
all this, the wish to be alone:
However
the sky grows dark with invitation-cards
However
we follow the printed directions of sex
However
the family is photographed under the flag-staff -
Beyond
all this, the wish to be alone.
Beneath
it all, the desire for oblivion runs:
Despite
the artful tensions of the calendar,
The life
insurance, the tabled fertility rites,
The
costly aversion of the eyes away from death -
Beneath
it all, the desire for oblivion runs.
In this poem
the poet states his wish “to be alone." The poet wishes to be freed from
the responsibilities and hopes that society enforces upon him. He craves to be
free of "the sky grows dark with
invitation-cards”; the social obligations of the society .He wishes to be free
from "the printed directions of sex,"; the expectations that society
has regarding the sexual behaviour of a man or a woman. He also wishes that he
did not have to be "photographed under the flag" together with his
family; the responsibilities of one's
country (the flag) and one's family.
In the second
stanza, the poet goes even farther: he seems to desire to be free of the
"burden" of life itself. He expresses a "desire for
oblivion," or self-destruction.
Here poet
discusses about the wishes or wants which are infinite. This circle of wants
never gets over. One want leads to another. Throughout the poem, the poet
discusses about the never-ending painful desires of human beings.
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