Philip Larkin

Revision of Larkin's poems and poetic terms.
What H is the University where Larkin worked as a librarian?. What D is the poem containing the priest and the doctor in their long coats?. What A is the downtrodden husband dealt with in 'Self's the Man'?. What T is the poem that features this line 'this unique distance from isolation'?. What H is the poem featuring 'That vase.'?. What C is a break or pause in a line of verse?. What I is a metre consisting of 5 pairs of unstressed stressed syllables?. What T is a metre made up of pairs of stressed unstressed syllables?. What S is the poem featuring the image of 'Fight Cancer'?. What B is the place Mr Bleaney used to work at?. What P is figurative device giving inanimate objects human traits?. What E is when a line of verse corresponds to a complete thought / sentence?. What U is the phrase used in 'Wild Oats' to describe the 'snaps'?. What Q is a four lined stanza?. What P is the repetition of p, b and d sounds?. What M is the title of the poem containing the line 'Never such innocence'?. What H is this form of rhyme 'moon/on', where the consonants correspond?. What P is the fictional speaker of a poem?. What T is the poem featuring 'Bri-nylon Baby-Dolls and Shorties'?. What A is the poem featuring the line 'Books are a load of crap'?.
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