Absences
Philip Larkin * Track #34 On Collected Poems
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- #1“All catches alight”
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- #2“This was your place of birth, this daytime palace”
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- #3“The moon is full tonight”
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- #4Dawn
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- #5Conscript
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- #6“Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose”
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- #7“The horns of the morning”
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- #8Winter
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- #9“Climbing the hill within the deafening wind”
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- #10“Within the dream you said”
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- #11“I put my mouth”
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- #12Wedding Wind
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- #13Places, Loved Ones
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- #14Coming
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- #15Dry-Point
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- #16Born Yesterday - (To Sally Amis)
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- #17Age
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- #18Spring
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- #19Deceptions
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- #20Absences
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- #21If, My Darling
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- #22Arrivals, Departures
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- #23Naturally the Foundation will Bear Your Expenses
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- #24Broadcast
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- #25Home is so Sad
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- #26Toads Revisited
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- #27Self’s The Man
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- #28As Bad as a Mile
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- #29Reference Back
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- #30Afternoons
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Absences by Philip Larkin
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Philip LarkinAbout
In this poem Larkin seeks to transcend the ordinary — a parochial view of his home town, Hull, perhaps. Instead he invokes a voice ‘beyond the Self’ and embodies what might be described as an ‘Other’ voice. Larkin himself said of the poem ‘Absences’, ‘I fancy it sounds like a different, better poet...
Absences Annotated
Rain patters on a sea that tilts and sighs
Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows
Tower suddenly, spray-haired. Contrariwise
A wave drops like a wall: another follows
Wilting and scrambling, tirelessly at play
Where there are no ships and no shallows
Above the sea, the yet more shoreless day
Riddled by wind, trails lit-up galleries:
They shift to giant ribbing, sift away
Such attics cleared of me! Such absences!
Absences Q&A
Who wrote Absences's ?
Absences was written by Philip Larkin.