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...

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...

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....

"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...

"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...

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...

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...