![]() ![]() In summary, ‘Days’ reflects, in a rather matter-of-fact way, on the deepest of questions: ‘what’s it all about?’ and ‘what is the meaning of life?’ But the recalibrating of this question in terms of ‘days’, rather than life or existence in general, points up an important and recurring theme for Larkin’s poetry: the daily ritual of work, the day-to-day business of living. Whereas most of Larkin’s poems utilise regular metre and some sort of rhyme scheme, ‘Days’ does not. ![]() Flint, Joseph Campbell, and other early free-verse pioneers in English poetry from nearly half a century earlier. Its ten-line simplicity is reminiscent of the Imagist poetry of T. Like a handful of Larkin’s other well-known poems, such as ‘Going’, ‘ Water’, ‘ Afternoons’, and ‘Solar’, ‘Days’ is written in free verse, with no rhyme scheme or regular metre. ![]()
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