High Windows (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Larkin
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Freedom, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Religion, God, Moral conditions, Youth, Women’s movement, Old age or elderly people, Priests, Aging, Birth control
The Poem
“High Windows” consists of five quatrains; it has a variable metrical pattern and an irregular but discernible rhyme scheme (basically abab). Like many of Philip Larkin’s poems, “High Windows” is written in the first person with no attempt to separate himself from the speaker. “I write poems,” Larkin has said, “to preserve things I have seen/thought/felt (if I may so indicate a composite and complex experience) both for myself and others.”
In “High Windows,” an older man describes his thoughts and feelings on seeing a young couple...
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