Larkin - looking at the room - fear of death - same as mr bleaney.
describes room - room is a metaphor for mr bleaneys life - doesnt need to describe mr bleaney.
Title - grim and dull name - connotations - bleak, rainy, lean.
Stanza 1: Persona feels sympathy for mr bleaney. 'til they moved him' - from work to work? or he died? - he has no control of his own destiny.
also looks down on him - 'thin and frayed' - reflection on him, lack of energy or money.
unspoken questions - why and how he lived like this? why not change?
Stanza 2: description.
Stanza 3: feeling of empathy - 'so it happens that i lie where mr bleaney lay' - Larkin knows how mr bleaney felt - mr bleaneys life is better than Larkin's - mr bleaney moved on - Larkin is one step behind.
Stanza 4: feeling of sympathy but also looking down on him - 'the jabbering set' - 'jab' - like a continuous punch - looking down, why would you want something like this.
'his preference for sauce to gravy' - looking down - unsophisticated.
Stanza 5: looking down - 'four aways' - like the lottery - Larkin thinks its mindless and delusional.
'the Frinton folk' - town, boring, not exotic, grim.
Sympathy - 'who put him up' - could be changed to 'who put up with him' - even they feel sorry for him.
Stanza 6: sympathy - 'frigid wind' - frozen, no fertility - closed to life, cold - similar to Larkin.
sympathy - 'telling himself that this was home' - he has nothing better.
persona looks down - 'grinned' - sly or fake, sounds like grim - not a nice word.
Mr Bleanys better than Larkin - appeared to have a happy life
Stanza 7: 'and at his age having no more to show than one hired box' - sympathy - died too soon,
looking down - thats all he had.
empathy - we just go from one box to another - flat - coffin, life - death, ends up being about Larkin.
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