The Use Of Diction In Philip Larkin's Poetry Of Departures

In Philip Larkin’s “Poetry of Departures,” Larkin employs the use of strong and specific diction in order to convey his opinion about two different things. This poem discusses and coneys the ideal of finding yourself in a new way by exploring and reforming your old self while shifting to a new and adventurous life of exploration. In order to truly convey these two different life styles, Larkin uses dramatically different diction in order to contrast the different lives and share his opinions on them. In this poem, Larkin seems to split up the two different lifestyles into separate stanzas. The first and third stanzas discuss the intent and personality of the man who leaves his old life in order to seek out a new and adventurous one. Through diction, Larkin uses words like audacious and purifying to describe the actions of men who live in this way. He uses audacious to show how people who live this way are both bold yet contain a degree of lack of respect, and uses purifying to show how living a life such as this can be purifying to ones life. By using words such as these, it also reveals his attitude towards the different changes in

Larkin uses specific diction in order to convey the meaning of this life as well as his own personal attitude towards these kinds of people. He uses words such as hate and detest to show how he does not prefer or enjoy this life. He despises the way that he lives the same life everyday, but also detests the way that others live their lives, and even though he does not like this type of life, he knows that he lives it. In the third stanza, the speaker talks about how he envies the man who seeks adventure and how he is stuck in his old and typical ways. This shows how Larkin has an attitude of both admiration and envy for people who constantly change their lives and do new