Philip Larkin

Today I would like to write about Philip Larkin's "High Windows". This is a rather short poem with six stanzas with a total of twenty lines. When I first read this poem, I had to read it again because I was unclear what the author was trying to get across. I often find myself getting lost in words such as cus words or crude words. It is almost as if these words distract me and I sit there trying to figure out why the author chose those words, instead of trying to find out what the poem is really meaning. As I read this poem the second time, I went under the impression that this was a man looking in on another persons life. This character was seeing the kids and happiness and stereo typing that this was paradise. This is what caught my attention the most. As I am only eighteen, I still think to myself how bad I want to just start a family and be a part of this so called paradise, but why rush it? Another one of Larkin's like was as follows, "...I wonder if/ Anyone looked at me, fourty years back,/ And though, That'll be the life;" (lines 9-11). This line stood out to me for the simple fact that it made me think the same thing. Does anyone look at me and find themselves picturing "paradise" with me? This poem almost made me feel like my biological time clock was clicking. It made me realize how much I do not want to end up like this character, looking into anothers life an wishing I had theirs. Now, I may be completely off on this interpretaion of the poem, but like they say, everyone interprets poems differently. I also read "Sad Steps" and would reccomend any of you who read my blogs to read that poem as well.