Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin
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This poem from Larkin’s 1964 collection, ‘The Whitsun Weddings’, is about the deterioration of a long-term relationship through lack of communication and misinterpretation of the cause.
It is not uncommon for Larkin to see the negative aspects of love and he wasn’t particularly interested in having...
Talking in bed ought to be easiest,
Lying together there goes back so far,
An emblem of two people being honest.
Yet more and more time passes silently.
Outside, the wind's incomplete unrest
Builds and disperses clouds about the sky,
And dark town heap up on the horizon.
None of this cares for us. Nothing shows why
At this unique distance from isolation
It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.
Talking in Bed - The Whitsun Weddings was written by Philip Larkin.
Talking in Bed - The Whitsun Weddings was produced by Philip Larkin.