Talk:The Whitsun Weddings (poem)
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Opinions etc dealt with[edit]
Just to explain my changes.
Larkin comments on [the newlyweds'] dress, hopeful chatter, and possible aspirations.
- No, he doesn't. Deleted.
In the concluding verse there is a reference to the Christian significance of Whitsun (all the power that being changed can give)
- No - the obvious context here is that the changing refers to the change in status from being unmarried to being married. To say otherwise would require citation of an expert, particularly as Larkin had little patience for religion. Deleted.
and the memorable final lines
- Memorable to the person who wrote that phrase? Clearly statement of opinion. Deleted.
: '...We slowed again, :And as the tightened brakes took hold, there swelled :A sense of falling, like an arrow-shower :Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain.'
- Amazing poetry but without a context, deleted.
Commentators have variously seen in these final lines elements of sexual imagery, of renewal, and of eventual failure of some of the marriages.