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A hothouse flashed uniquely: hedges dipped. And rose: and now and then a smell of grass. Displaced the reek of buttoned carriage-cloth. Until the next town, new and nondescript, Approached with acres of dismantled cars. At first, I didn’t notice what a noise. The weddings made. Each station that we stopped at: sun destroys.
"The Whitsun Weddings" was written by British poet Philip Larkin and first published in his collection The Whitsun Weddings in 1963. The poem recounts the speaker's train journey from the east of England to London and his observations along the way.
Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings was the title of one of his books of poetry, published in 1964. It is one of his longest poems, at eight stanzas of ten lines each, and it describes a train journey from Kingston upon Hull through the countryside.
The Whitsun Weddings is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin. It was first published by Faber in the United Kingdom on 28 February 1964. It was a commercial success, by the standards of poetry publication, with the first 4,000 copies being sold within two months.
The Whitsun Weddings" is one of the best known poems by British poet Philip Larkin. It was written and rewritten and finally published in the 1964 collection of poems, also called The Whitsun Weddings. It is one of three poems that Larkin wrote about train journeys. [1]
A hothouse flashed uniquely: hedges dipped. And rose: and now and then a smell of grass. Displaced the reek of buttoned carriage-cloth. Until the next town, new and nondescript, Approached with acres of dismantled cars. At first, I didn’t notice what a noise. The weddings made. Each station that we stopped at: sun destroys.
Oct 25, 2007 · Whitsun, or Whit Sunday, is the seventh Sunday after Easter (Pentecost), deep into spring, when people often marry. This may explain why Larkin saw so many wedding parties during an actual train ride in 1955, which gave him the germ of the poem. That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about. One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday.
Whitsun is a traditional time for weddings. Larkin presents the reader with a reductive view of weddings. As in his poem Afternoons the simple but rich and fulfilling aspects of life are...
The Whitsun Weddings. That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about. One—twenty on the sunlit Saturday. Did my three—quarters—empty train pull out, All windows down, all cushions hot, all sense. Of being in a hurry gone. We ran. Behind the backs of houses, crossed a street. Of blinding windscreens, smelt the fish—dock; thence.
Aug 17, 2016 · ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ is the title poem in Philip Larkin’s 1964 volume of poems. The poem, describing a journey from Hull to London on the Whitsun weekend and the wedding parties that Larkin sees climbing aboard the train at each station, is one of Larkin’s longest great poems and one of his most popular.
