The Importance of Elsewheree
Philip Larkin * Track #20 On The Whitsun Weddings
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- #20The Importance of Elsewheree
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The Importance of Elsewheree by Philip Larkin
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Contextually, Larkin wrote this while he was librarian at Queen’s University, Belfast in 1950- in 1950, Larkin wrote to his friend that he was ‘reasonably content’ in Belfast. It is quite different to how everyone else felt in this time period, post-war where many English people felt that they were...
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Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home,
Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech,
Insisting so on difference, made me welcome:
Once that was recognised, we were in touch.
Their draughty streets, end-on to hills, the faint
Archaic smell of dockland, like a stable.
The herring-hawker's cry, dwindling, went
To prove me separate, not unworkable.
Living in England has no such excuse:
These are my customs and establishments
It would be much more serious to refuse.
Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.