Places, Loved Ones
Philip Larkin * Track #27 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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Places, Loved Ones by Philip Larkin
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This poem, written in 1954, reflects Larkin’s view of marriage and commitment. For reasons that come clear in the poem he never married, though had been engaged and had several relationships with women. Larkin also found it difficult to settle and feel any identification with one place, although he...
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No, I have never found
The place where I could say
This is my proper ground,
Here I shall stay;
Nor met that special one
Who has an instant claim
On everything I own
Down to my name;
To find such seems to prove
You want no choice in where
To build, or whom to love;
You ask them to bear
You off irrevocably,
So that it's not your fault
Should the town turn dreary,
The girl a dolt.
Yet, having missed them, you're
Bound, none the less, to act
As if what you settled for
Mashed you, in fact;
And wiser to keep away
From thinking you still might trace
Uncalled-for to this day
Your person, your place.
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