This Be the Verse Questions and Answers
This Be the Verse
What poetic techniques and devices does Philip Larkin use in "This Be the Verse"?
"This Be the Verse" is a short, trenchant poem which makes its point with great rhetorical force. One of Larkin's favorite techniques to create memorable phrases is alliteration. The m sounds in...
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How does Philip Larkin relate the poem "This be the Verse" to his life (or relationship to his parents)? I read in an...
In the poem "This be the verse," Phillip Larkin presents a very negative view of parents: They fill you with the faults they hadAnd add some extra, just for you. One might want to deduce from...
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What is the meaning of the title of "This Be the Verse" by Philip Larkin?
In his poem "Requiem," Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: This be the verse you grave for me:Here he lies where he longed to be;Home is the sailor, home from sea,And the hunter home from the hill....
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Compare and contrast Larkin's "This Be The Verse" and Ibsen's A Doll's House. Specifically, I need help crafting a...
Ibsen's A Doll's House and Larkin's "This Be the Verse" are both about the unhappiness in families. This might be a point of comparison that you can make between both works. However, A Doll's House...
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What is the theme of "This Be The Verse" by Philip Larkin?
The theme of Philip Larkin's "This Be the Verse" is best summed up by the first line of the poem's final stanza: Man hands on misery to man. More specifically, the theme is the way in which...
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How do I write a compare and contrast essay on Phillip Larkin's poem "This be the Verse" and the play A Doll's House...
"This Be The Verse" by Philip Larkin contains the infamous first line "They f*** you up, your mum and dad." On the face of it, Larkin's entertaining squib does not seem to have much in common with...
This Be the Verse
What is Philip Larkin trying to say in his poem "This Be the Verse"?
"This Be the Verse" is a blunt, in-your-face send up of parenthood. It's British colloquial ("mum") and modern vulgar ("They f*@# you up") in its conversational voice spoken by a swaggering male...