Home is so Sad
Philip Larkin * Track #7 On The Whitsun Weddings
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Home is so Sad by Philip Larkin
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Philip LarkinAbout
Philip Larkin wrote “Home is so Sad” after a visit to his mother in 1958, precisely ten years after his father’s death from cancer. This intimate poem was not published until 1964.
Like much of his work the poem paints a gloomy picture characteristic of the poet. It also contains some existential...
Home is so Sad Annotated
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft
And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.
Home is so Sad Q&A
Who wrote Home is so Sad's ?
Home is so Sad was written by Philip Larkin.