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Volume 20:5 May 2020
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Rhetoric and Poetic Excellence of Philip Larkin

Dr. C. Ramya, M.B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Larkin
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Courtesy: http://philiplarkin.com/larkin_biography/

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to present Philip Larkin as a dramatic poet who uses ‘rhetoric’ and ‘poetic excellence’ simultaneously in his poetic realm. This paper also displays how Larkin adopted a deterministic view of life where time destroys everything as it moves. This paper analyses his poems and claims that there is a conflict among dreams, hopes and expectations as common themes especially in a rhetorical way. Thus, this paper exposes how the rhetorical and lyrical qualities of Larkin moves together.

Keywords: Philip Larkin, Rhetoric, Lyric, dramatic, Time, conflicts, sensuous, emotional.

Philip Larkin is known as ‘Movement Poet’ and his poetry has stemmed from the main lines, quite transmitted from obscurity to clarity. The movement to which he belongs is in a way peculiar assortment with a single animus to be sometimes unendurably explicit and forthright. He is an adept in presenting with rare accuracy the outward appearance and the social climate of suburban England in the 1950’s. “His verse is suffused with a compassionate melancholy, a sense of sadness and the transience of things, an awareness of the random quality inherent in human existence” (Press 254).

The North Ship is considered as enormous advance on Larkin’s earlier work. according to John Press, this poem exhibits for the first time, the features of his mature poetry. It is, as John Press puts it, “a fine, though unobtrusive, power of evoking an atmosphere and the subtleties of an emotional relationship; a muted wit; a masterly control of tone a lyrical poignancy tempered with irony” (P 254).

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Dr. C. Ramya, M.B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Asst. Professor Department of English E.M.G. Yadava College for Women Madurai – 625 014 Tamil Nadu, India rramyachelliah@gmail.com
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