Sunday, 8 March 2015

Broadcast - Philip Larkin



A poem for maeve and the music and his love of both.

stanza one: 'Giant whispering' - contrast, paradox, onomatopoeia, background noise.
'coughing' - the start of something - suspense and anticipation.
'sudden scuttle' - alliteration

Stanza two: 'beautiful and devout' - he's adoring of her.
'cascades' - waterfall - metaphor
'one of your gloves unnoticed on the floor' - he knows her traits and what she's like.
'here it goes quickly dark' - his mood and atmosphere changes quickly.

Stanza three: half empty - incomplete, 'leaves on half-emptied trees.'
'rabid storms of chording' - music reaches a crescendo matches emotions - pathetic fallacy
'all the more shamelessly, their cut-off shout leaving me desperate to pick out your hands, tiny in all that air, applauding' - describing his feelings. 'cut-off' - music stopped, relationship stopped. 'desperate' - he misses her, not sure how he feels.

steady rhyme scheme, lots of sound and music imagery.

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