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Title  self's the man BY  phillip larkin

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Title  self's the man BY  phillip larkin

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Finally what has the poem achieved that could not be achieved by prose?

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Finally what has the poem achieved that could not be achieved by prose?

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Spoken language ‘oh’ and contractions ‘she’s’
Aliiteration “wasting his life working”-phonlgoical feature –wasting work away-punication
‘finishes siblance’-pause

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Title self’s the man good selfish antiguity –irony ‘perfect family unit’-defeinte could deney person writing it
Mulpative women –home frivolous things date
Tumble drewier –luxary items
Expensive –‘electric fire’
Perks job a lot for nothing paying her paying her something she dose nothing
View of children’nipper’ –children hardwork ‘clobber’-marriage and ‘her mother’ –promblems not named mother in law
Colloquial ‘clobber’ ‘ perk’
Urbanisation:semantic field ‘drier’ ‘electric firier’-
Syntaxic paralism of ‘and’ like a syndeic listing andaphora  aggressive dangerous than wroth  ‘clobber’ negative contations –crowds on life –house become overrun

Synmantic field of regular –‘evening paper’

Selfish –negative takes perks –pragamtics

Woman children not named

Trival ‘kiddies clobber’ ‘drier’ ‘electric fire’
‘Hand’-fate

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Use of figures of speech (Metaphor/Simile) and image

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Use of figures of speech (Metaphor/Simile) and image

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Alonness and isolsation key thing =narrator lonely –better off marrying cynicalisms negativety bad element of doubt –lonely selfish –better of getting what we want
Being selfish –indepedence-freedom no paint wall-another thing has to pay for
Married life insane-rock isolation –price pay selfish & indpdent Arnold not loney busy life married life drive him insane
Rehotic question
Steroupe of everday husband –‘perfect family unit’
Husband like
Look for the short term not long term “he married a woman  to stop her getting away/Now she’s there all day”
regretful

Repetitive
‘her mother’-stay traped woman traps him
Work all the time

Superioia

‘van’ –going mad in his situation transporting transporting to his death  ‘-‘dash ambalance transport all his life way –removal ‘van’-discvorce dose all thing family trapped

Two voices –one married ones not

Happy single doubts
Imperative statements –why
‘but’-voltire –rhetorical question

Two extreme unhappy marriage alone

Dominate male –tables turned steroyptical and sexisit hen pecked husband nagging wife misgonistic

Flippant sarcastic sincle
Boastful selfishness proud of-selfish trait all people have some less then others

He the one traped in the marriage not him –foused by social convections –esseintal of having a wife

Marriage: worn out children wife

‘put a screw int ehw wall’ metaphore-screw in his coffin –screwing marriage nail –trapped scewed down

Wall is the wife –hamer situation controlling so unselfish

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What dose Arnold gets out of the marriage sense of purpose
Implication others –completed taks, reproduces himself legeacy-sex women wife relathionship home setting physical confort –narrator dosen’t have

Haunted –sneering obessed

Mudnate fiviousless life

Day to day consisit of –clutter of children

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lexis/imagery/rhyme scheme-repetitive

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heaviey irony
who is more selfish? Arnold self sacrifice -role farther & son in law husband
3 last stanzas -reverse judgement-own fault 'out for his own ends'
Both self-instrest
last Stanza-marks a break direction poem-back on poet himself-question poem ends up
van death amalance removal van etc

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List of drudging –don’t need
Amblance of married life one thing after another lack of punctatation extgerated –bed time-view narrator likes to paint of marrigage life
Married wanted women-mistake own sake same Arnold got what out of it is a wife relationship sex marriage out of it –desrves all he gets comma missing elsisp ‘arent’ we’
No punication –enjambment
Comma-busy borning life contrast –stop breath  colon

Not providing for anyone
End stop –enjambs next-1st

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Voice of all the things he has to do dialogue
Both lived self –abosrb selfishy to their common goal
Did something more worse while

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Severs him rigths vs society fault Works socks off –not larkin-valued all he had – enjoyed writing ‘wasting his life on work’
Critics undecided whenever he is siding with one or the other-scared of relationships doubt dockery & son-mabey missed out –mabey son daughter-life be somthing
Diiference married unmarried- always human instinct
Is this larkin?-not

Indicate larkiness type character: “Wasting his life on work”-not him

Beginning to think I am better off

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Marriage + realtonships power + control women loneliness + isolation selfishness children frivoulous everday mundane cynical
Y-own state of bachelorhood & fate of married man

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Playing ryhms with
Warm humour
Houses & trousers nothen dialect
Joking rhyme lyeric ‘fast’ ‘contrast’
Rhyme schece –drewy

Repetition of life preiditicble-everyone society dose
Rhyming couplets –doubt
Call and response b lines not defeinate A lines are
bathos-

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Reflective and descriptive
Generalise