Links to Mr Bleany, Dockery and Son, Love Songs in Age
Abse links: A wall - manmade like Larkin describes - decaying and useless, yet beautiful.
Stanza 1: talks about manmade ruins and decay, dark atmosphere
'small-statured cross-faced tribes And cobble-close families' - everyone is linked by death, no matter where you live or what you look like.
'Life is slowly dying' - paradox, negative imagery - 'slowly dying' is repeated throughout.
Stanza 2: 'measuring love and money' - these things are pointless because you dont have them when you die anyway.
'the day spent hunting pig Or holding a garden party' - difference between ancient and modern but both are equally pointless, why spend time doing these things when you know you could die any second.
Stanza 3: shows that death is inevitable no matter what you're doing any there are so many different ways to die.
philosophical ending: 'and saying to some means nothing'. - some people aren't bothered and maybe dont fear death. 'others it leaves nothing to be said' - theres a shock element, they know they are going to die one day but they dont want to talk or think about it - out of sight out of mind.
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