Larkin and Eliot vary in their view on time. For Eliot, time is ceaselessly present from the spiritual point of view. Through time, time is conquered .But Larkin believes that changes are predictable in time’s domain and the past is past and is never to be regained, “time and time over. “To the constant flux of time, man is in thrall and a victim” (Larkin, CP).So time is not an abstract idea but has “eroding agents” to bring out ill-effects in life. So time conquers man in its eternal flux. Larkin’s poetry reflects his affinity with all other Movement poets: Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Thom Gunn, John Holloway, Elizabeth Jennings and John Wain in the delineation of time. All Movement poets deal with time that moves endlessly and advances life from Birth to growth, decrepitude and ultimately to death.
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This was sheltered in the name of irony by Richards, wit by Eliot, ambiguity by Empson and intelligence by Leavis. Donald Davie finds a common ground between Yeats, Pound and Eliot because all of them used mythological sources. At times when there was no traditional mythology they invented their own private mythologies to express their responses in a complex poetic style. Donald Davie favored Pound among the great Modernist poets because he alone used simple style for describing complex emotional and intellectual situations.
Bernard Bergonzi has noted the changes in the poetic style of the Movement poets and connected these transformations to the contemporary national temper. “The Movement poets wrote poems on simple subject and in straight forward manner, their ordinariness is due to the loss of empire, the abandonment of nuclear arms, Seuz, the consequences of 1944 Education Act, the creation of National Health Service, the political tedium induced by large and growing similarities between the two major poetries”( Bergonazi 138
Thus the modern …show more content…
This was sheltered in the name of irony by Richards, wit by Eliot, ambiguity by Empson and intelligence by Leavis. Donald Davie finds a common ground between Yeats, Pound and Eliot because all of them used mythological sources. At times when there was no traditional mythology they invented their own private mythologies to express their responses in a complex poetic style. Donald Davie favored Pound among the great Modernist poets because he alone used simple style for describing complex emotional and intellectual situations.
Bernard Bergonzi has noted the changes in the poetic style of the Movement poets and connected these transformations to the contemporary national temper. “The Movement poets wrote poems on simple subject and in straight forward manner, their ordinariness is due to the loss of empire, the abandonment of nuclear arms, Seuz, the consequences of 1944 Education Act, the creation of National Health Service, the political tedium induced by large and growing similarities between the two major poetries”( Bergonazi 138