Sunday 26 January 2014

Reaction to The Whitsun Weddings

When I first reading the Whitsun Weddings my initial reaction was that it was a deterrence to marriage but since reading it again and analysing it in detail, I realised that I was wrong.
 My opinion now on the poem is that the persona recognises that weddings can be happy and that married couples do have a future, even though it may not necessarily be for them. The persona however does mock the people he sees, with indications that they are common, particularly the uncle shouting smut and the girls who are parodies to fashion. I found that towards the end Larkin wrote in a more abstract way, allowing us to come to our own conclusions as to what he means and to a further extent what perhaps marriage means to us.

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