Thursday, 9 April 2015

Ignorance - Philip Larkin



rhyme scheme - aabbccddeeff - first line of each stanza is excluded.
informal and vague language.
links with 'Quests'

Stanza 1: about being a child - uninformed and doubtful - questioning - 'never to be sure of what is true or right or real' 'someone must know'

Stanza 2: about being a teenager - not wanting to be told what to do - thinking that you are right - 'Their skill at finding what they need'

Stanza 3: about being and adult or someone elderly - loosing control of yourself - death taking over - 'for our flesh surrounds us with its own decisions' - 'that when we start to die we have no idea why' - go back to being uninformed.

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