Iona Champain's AS Literature Blog

This poem is one which explores the idea that we are all born to die; each day we get a little closer to death, and this fate is something w...

'First Sight' is different to the majority of Larkin's poems; he turns something gloomy into something optimistic, when usually ...

This is a very short poem by Larkin which describes the feeling of throwing an apple core at the bin but missing your goal. It also obtains ...

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The contents of this poem revolves around a strange tree which is situated in the persona's back garden; it is ' rare'  and appe...

This poem, like 'Postcard to his Wife', was written about (and in memory of) Joan Abse, Dannie's wife, after she was tragically ...

This is an extremely sad and personal poem; it is about Abse's own wife, Joan, who died at the age of 78 in a car crash (Abse was presen...