As Bad as a Mile
Philip Larkin * Track #18 On The Whitsun Weddings
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As Bad as a Mile by Philip Larkin
Performed by
Philip LarkinProduced by
Philip LarkinWrited by
Philip LarkinAbout
February 1960
A poem about the human nature of failure.
Suggests that failure is predestined in humans, coming even before Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit- prelapsarian poetry.
The first stanza refers to someone throwing an apple core at a bin and missing the bin, while the second stanza sa...
As Bad as a Mile Annotated
Watching the shied core
Striking the basket, skidding across the floor
Shows less and less of luck, and more and more
Of failure spreading back up the arm
Earlier, and earlier, the unraised hand calm
The apple unbitten in the palm
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As Bad as a Mile was written by Philip Larkin.
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