Home is so sad - Philip Larkin

only 2 stanzas, ABABACDCDC rhyme scheme
probably written after the the death of his mother as it is about bereavement and loss. also the fact that everything had stayed where it is seems to show that he doesn't want to move anything because that is how his mother placed it. the fact that 'it withers so' means it could look messy and unkempt. home is so sad because the actual building stays the same even though someone has died. 'shaped to the comfort of the last to go'.