{"id":8918,"date":"2023-04-20T07:09:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T06:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8918"},"modified":"2023-04-22T08:19:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T07:19:16","slug":"poetry-family-larkin-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8918","title":{"rendered":"POETRY\/FAMiLY: Larkin, This\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"459\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_7803.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8919\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_7803.jpg 689w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_7803-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">They fuck you up, your mum and dad.   <br \/>    They may not mean to, but they do.   <br \/>They fill you with the faults they had<br \/>    And add some extra, just for you.<br \/><br \/>But they were fucked up in their turn<br \/>    By fools in old-style hats and coats,   <br \/>Who half the time were soppy-stern<br \/>    And half at one another\u2019s throats.<br \/><br \/>Man hands on misery to man.<br \/>    It deepens like a coastal shelf.<br \/>Get out as early as you can,<br \/>    And don\u2019t have any kids yourself.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This poem has a great deal of resonance for me, right now. Having said that, I\u2019d like to straight away apologise to my mum and dad for posting it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know much about Larkin, to be honest. But I do feel like I\u2019d like to explore his poetry further. This one reminds me, in its rather grimly jocular way, of Alan Bennett. They seem to share very British qualities of the eloquently curmudgeonly depressive! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8918\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;POETRY\/FAMiLY: Larkin, This\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2jQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8921,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}