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Tai Chi Italy (7/16/2011 6:44:00 PM)
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Well it wasn't mum and dad who phucked this poets poems up! It was poemshuntered down and deleted.
Philip! if you are up there, curse them for their bad taste.
with a smile from
Tai, from his neck of the midland woods
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Ron Price (12/2/2009 11:38:00 PM)
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Poetry is like trying to remember a tune you've forgotten... A poem is written because the poet gets a sudden vision.....he juggles with sounds and associations which will best express the original vision. It is done quite intuitively, sometimes esoterically, sometimes with a very common touch. That is why the poet never thinks of the reader. The vision has something to do with sex. I don't know what it is; it's subtle, elusive, indefineable. It's not surprising, obviously two creative forces in alliance, closely connected.
The result is a poetry of self-indulgence, the patter of the entertainer, fodder for future social historians from a poet who needs emotional isolation, from a poet who touches our hearts by showing his own, who reveals the paradoxes and enigmas of our lives by putting his own on the table, who provides, for me, perspectives on unity that emerge out of aloneness and solitude. -Ron Price with thanks to Andrew Swarbrick, Out of Reach: The Poetry of Philip Larkin, St. Martin 's Press, NY,1995, p.21.
He pursues self-definition,
the nature of identity,
through separateness,
exclusion and difference,
negative self-definition,
a voice of Englishness
back in that ninth and
early tenth stage of history1,
after the loss of imperial power,
diminished influence and, yes,
a new value to English experience.
A remorseful tone, secular
but communal and telling,
not untrue, not unkind and
on the margins, exposed to
the beyond, imprisoned in a
personality, something hidden,
something he has been given,
reticence-English privacy ethic:
where difference merges into
absolute unity; where special
uniqueness and loneliness are
clarified as oneness, endless
continuities and discontinuities.
Ron Price
1 1953-1963-ninth stage of history; 1963-1973-first ten years of the tenth stage of history. Larkin did not write 'many poems after 1973.'(ibid., p.164)
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