High Windows - Philip Larkin Pages:48 pages Between the street violence and

Between the street violence and the street parties

If you want to get back to nature and spend a few nights under the stars

'A beautiful book with a beautiful message

From tiny urban forests in Tokyo and the star-rich skies of Flagstaff

to her surprise

High Windows - Philip Larkin Pages:48 pages Between the street violence andLarkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Verse', 'The Explosion', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet. Rather than words comes the