A Study Of Reading Habits Analysis

Author: poem of Philip Larkin Type: poem Views: 10

When getting my nose in a book
Cured most things short of school,
It was worth ruining my eyes
To know I could still keep cool,
And deal out the old right hook
To dirty dogs twice my size.

Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was just my lark:
Me and my coat and fangs
Had ripping times in the dark.
The women I clubbed with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.

Don't read much now: the dude
Who lets the girl down before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who's yellow and keeps the store
Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.

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There is a boy who would use reading as a way to get away from things that are hard in life like school or bullies. They could imagine how they would “deal out the old right hook” to those people who were mean to them.
Then later in the boy’s life, he had to get specs, and evil was just his wish in finding when he was reading. He had fun going into his own world of darkness, and cloaks and fangs. He liked the idea of humiliate women, who were little innocent and beautiful things like meringues.
Now it is present time in the boys life and he doesn’t read much anymore because reading about the dude letting the girl down before the hero arrives, or the chap who sits around and does nothing with his life are all subjects that are too close to home, and make him upset about his own lousy life. He can no longer leave his problems with reading because now he is reading his problems. So he gets rid of the stupid pieces of crap as the speaker calls them.

| Posted on 2009-11-02 | by a guest

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larkin begins to explain his childhood and how books cured all his problems, as he grew up his interest in books deteriated, the characters became far too familiar and close to home. he uses crued language which is shocking even now to see in a poem.

| Posted on 2009-10-18 | by a guest

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The narrator has been living vicariously through reading and becomes upset upon noticing how he was too busy reading about life and not living it. He becomes too familiar with the characters described in the last stanza.

| Posted on 2009-04-08 | by a guest

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Larkin is obviously judging the everyday aspects of life perhaps to draw attention to how trivial his life has now become in comparison to what it once was, hence the refference to his childhood.

| Posted on 2008-10-22 | by a guest

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| Posted on 2007-02-19 | by a guest

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