CONTEXT:
Was one of the Movement poets who wrote about current affairs
“Hermit of Hull”
Never married and he lived his life as a librarian
Had an unhappy childhood
Had a fear of death
RHYME SCHEME:
The unrhymed form reflects the poem’s focus on an unsatisfactory
life; or rather generation of lives.
TONE & MOOD:
Emptiness
Tedium
Banal
Distance
Immaturity
Unambitious
Mundane
THEMES:
Nature
Transience/change/Time
Death/mortality
Power
Women
Fragility
Relationships
Freedom/confinement
Injustice
Identity