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Why do you think the speaker finds talking in bed to be so difficult?
"Talking in Bed" should be the most natural thing, according to Larkin, but he finds it more and more difficult to do anything but lie in silence. In the poem, he describes a harsh wind blowing outside the bedroom and towns "heaping" on the horizon. These things seem to indicate a harshness and excess in the environment. The poet says that nothing in the outside world cares for us. It seems as if he finds talking to a lover impossible in the face of existential ennui.
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What does Larkin suggest about young people in "The Large Cool Store"?
The poem describes a store in which conservative work...
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