I am genuinely impressed by how many of you have gone and looked it up after I deliberately didn't link to it and was this incandescently furious about it :-p
You're very welcome for the Duffy; I met it at GSCE English and it was a fuckin' life-raft.
(As I have managed to articulate elsewhere, some of the issue with That Fucking Poem is that it's not even something that could be described as being - in the literary sense - "in dialogue" with the Larkin: because there is no conversation here, just someone speaking over uncomfortable truths they don't want to hear, and literally re- and over-writing our histories.)
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Date: 2015-10-09 11:31 am (UTC)You're very welcome for the Duffy; I met it at GSCE English and it was a fuckin' life-raft.
(As I have managed to articulate elsewhere, some of the issue with That Fucking Poem is that it's not even something that could be described as being - in the literary sense - "in dialogue" with the Larkin: because there is no conversation here, just someone speaking over uncomfortable truths they don't want to hear, and literally re- and over-writing our histories.)