Reaction to Reference Back

Reference Back is about the persona, possibly Larkin himself, living at his mothers house, listening to music from his room that they both share a love of. Whilst this makes the mother sad as the music transports her back to her youth when she used to play this music, the persona also reflects on how he is 'wasting my time at home' suggesting maybe that he wishes that he was in his own home listening to this music without his mother being there. Another hint that he is unhappy at still being at home is 'to my unsatisfactory prime' this could be a hint that he feels it should be his time to go and have a family and to have his own house yet he still lives alone with his mother.