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An Arundel Tomb Analysis - Term Papers

An Arundel Tomb Analysis

An Arundel Tomb is a poem about time, the way everything mutates over the years until what you meant to be most important in the beginning becomes insignificant. Underlying his ideas on time and its passage and damage are the themes of death but also love, a theme not usually associated with Larkin so that maybe he should be remembered for "What will survive of us is love" and not for the usually simply interpreted lines from "Dockery and son": "Life is a boredom, then fear".

The poem starts off by describing the sculpture around which the poem revolves, the earl and the countess are quite a proper couple but their features are quite indistinct, Larkin uses the words "blurred" and ...

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noted for that gesture of love so that even the sculptor thought it would be "The Latin names around the base" that would survive. Larkin tries to show us that the purpose of something done in the past can change in time so that it is something completely different that survives. He is maybe thinking of his own writing and what it will come to symbolize in the future, even now people like his poems for different reasons than 20 years ago. This hint of the theme of identity can be pushed further to suggest that the speed with which the times change for these statues might reflect the speed of how society has changed since he was a child (free sex...). Soon people come to see the sculpture "to look, not read" so that the intention of the artist, to have the Latin names be remembered has failed. What survives of them is their love symbolized by the "undated" snow, but many more people come to see them now, from "friends" in the beginning to "succeeding eyes" later on and finally ...

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Added: 11/27/2013 05:43:05 PM
Submitted By: 15markhamn
Category: Poetry & Poets
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 549
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