Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse"


	Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse"

enbar

12-7-2007 12:54 AM

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enbar says:

Larkin's bitter (not to say vicious) classic short poem.

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12-13-2007 12:35 AM

ericskiff

Wow - definitely a little bitter, but certainly beautiful in a way as well.

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  They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
  And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
  By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
  And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
  It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
  And don't have any kids yourself.
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