Note of Alienation in the Poetry of Philip Larkin
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In the general sense ‘alienation’ is used to characterize the feeling of ‘non-belonging’, exclusion and loneliness seen to be typical of the modernist vision. It has become a major theme in many a contemporary writing. The alienated protagonist is a recurrent figure in the poetry of Philip Larkin who is a representative British poet during the second half of the 20th century. Larkin portrayed in his poetry the existential predicament of the British society just immediately after the Second World War. The existential predicament caused in the lives of the Western people by the rootlessness is the outcome of war. The present essay attempts to illustrate some of Philip Larkin’s poetry from this perspective.
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