First Sights

Philip Larkin * Track #22 On The Whitsun Weddings

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Philip Larkin

1964

First Sights by Philip Larkin

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This poem was written in March 1956, a year where the winter extended into the start of the spring months and is therefore taken from Larkin’s own experiences.
The title, like much of the poem, is both literal and metaphorical and implies that there is more to come, a contrastingly optimistic view t...

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Lambs that learn to walk in snow
When their bleating clouds into the air
Meet a vast unwelcome, know
Nothing but a sunless glare.
Newly stumbling to and fro
All they find, outside the fold,
Is a wretched width of cold.

As they wait beside the ewe,
Her fleeces wetly caked, there lies
Hidden round them, waiting too,
Earth's immeasurable surprise.
They could not grasp it if they knew
What will soon wake and grow
Utterly unlike the snow.

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