Monday, 2 February 2015

Ambulances - Philip Larkin

Ambulances - Philip Larkin



Death - society before seemed to accept death, now society seem to defy it.
images of threads unravelling, Two images - person is the knitted item and the organs are the thread, when one thread comes loose, the whole knitted item is loosened, therefore it is time for the ambulance. or A family is the knitted item and one person is the loose thread, when one person dies the whole family falls apart, therefore they need ambulances to knit the family back together.
Stanza 1 - one certainty is death, ambulances will eventually stop on everyone's street for all kinds of reasons.
Stanza 2 - someone has been taken away in the ambulance, people have stopped their daily business to have a look.
Stanza 3 - emptiness, absence death for the person in the ambulance
Stanza 4 - thinking of the person who died and their family
Stanza 5 - loneliness, die alone - "unreachable inside a room"
"and dulls to distance all we are"

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