The Bachelor Voice in Larkin's Poetry

In the 1950s there was no one British poet who embodied the spirit of the age as T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats had for previous generations. In the middle of the 1950s, a new generation of poetic built upon the old collectively called as Movement poets emerged with Philip Larkin as its poetic exemplar. His poetry is intended on telling the truth about life as it is and represents the voice of an accumulated experience of Larkin as a poet and Larkin as a person. He never married in his life and his poetry expresses considerable bewilderment about the prospects of sexual happiness and wedded bliss along with his ambivalent feeling of his failure to have a ‘home’. Satirically, he disregards marriage, for to marry means, he believes, losing one's freedom. Sex is pictured in his poems as deceptive, and its promise proves to be empty or false and miserably disruptive. This paper aims to show the bachelor-self of the poet recurring in some of his poems.