“Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose”
Philip Larkin * Track #6 On Collected Poems
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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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"Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose" by Philip Larkin
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Philip Larkin featured the poem “Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose” in his 1945 collection of poetry The North Ship as the sixth poem.
“Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose” Annotated
Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose
To drive the shadows back;
Prolong the talk on this or that excuse,
Till the night comes to rest
While some high bell is beating two o'clock.
Yet when the guest
Has stepped into the windy street, and gone,
Who can confront
The instantaneous grief of being alone?
Or watch the sad increase
Across the mind of this prolific plant, Dumb idleness?