Philip Larkin Wedding Wind Summary - 1597 Words

Philip Larkin’s Wedding Wind, is a poem about a newlywed woman, and her recounts of her first night as a married woman. The following day she is coming to the realization of what she just got herself into. The character realizes that this marriage is not going to satisfy her, and that it is already off to a bad start. She now regrets her new life, and in the end even talks about death. The poem illustrates how marriage is not what you think it is. The style of this poem is a lyric poem, which is a short piece of writing with the main character expressing their thoughts and feelings. In the poem the woman is speaking about her new life as a married woman. In the poem the words: I, my, wedding, and wind are used a lot. All of these words†¦show more content†¦In the second stanza it is the next day and things have shifted just like the weather. â€Å"All’s ravelled under the sun by the wind’s blowing. He has gone to look at the floods, and I carry a chippe d pail to the chicken-run, set it down and stare.† In this scene the woman seems to be doing farm work while her new husband is doing nothing, and it seems as if she is doing all the work. I think the chipped pail represents something damaged and broken possibly on the road to disaster or being broken. This pail could represent both the woman and her husband who probably have their individual issues and sooner or later everything will clash and crumble. Perhaps their marriage. In this second half of the poem there also should have been a honeymoon of some sort, but still no celebrating between the couple. â€Å"All is the wind hunting through clouds and forests, thrashing my apron and the hanging cloths on the line.Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind of joy my action turn on, like a thread carrying beads?† I think the character is describing her sadness and frustration as taking on a â€Å"bodily form† and only the wind being a strong and forceful object to carry that amount of manpower for which she is expressing. And a thread carrying beads representing fragility some type of weakness. â€Å"Shall I be let sleep now this perpetual morning shares my bed?† The woman is realizing that this is what her life will