Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb

Philip Larkin reads An Arundel Tomb

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[GovtAccountability]

great! the images started to detract from the poem for me, so i turned away about halfway through.

[DavidQuantick]

yeah. I like making the images but would be happy to just post black screen.

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But it's an ALMOST instinct, ALMOST true - in other words, it's so close to what we want, but it's not really true. It's just a judgement we presume the Earl and Countess shared, a notion which would have seemed unimportant against the preservation of their name and which may be utterly insignificant in the future.

[gamerloz]

Our almost-instinct almost true:

What will survive of us is love.

That pause...before "is love"... He so wishes to believe it; you can hear it in his voice. But there's no escaping the reality that "Time has transfigured them into / Untruth" and that the idea of love's endurance is only an "attitude".

One of my faves, though I think I like 'Love Songs in Age' the most.

*ambivalent sigh*

[Andy King]

Quantick is a legend

[officialOKAPI]

You fucking suck mate

[Markyboy1432]

posh twat.

[moirasmith]

I'd choose either 'Mr Bleaney' or 'Dockery and son'. Philip Larkin is gone now but we are fortunate and blessed to have his work.

[CuteLittlePuppi]

my name is larkin so i typed in my name and i got this :/

[Palimbacchius]

No, it's iambic tetrameter; it just happens that the first line is headless.

[ktpa2]

Living and being educated in Chichester gives me the opportunity to give this poem a much more eerie ring when you listen to it with headphones on, sitting in front of the Earl and Countess themselves...

[HitMeQuick]

02.13 barely subdued half burp. Either that or he's swallowing a bit of biscuit. I can picture it. The Master of Form with a packet of Rich Tea. I wonder who would win a fight. Mr McVitie or Mr Larkin. Mmm.

I'm not allowed biscuits.

[TheMrplayitsafe]

i love larkin in this as he is, for once, seemingly optiimistic. for once it's not about fucking

[jgilonis]

Actually it's trochaic tetrameter not iambic pentameter.