SELF'S THE MAN AND BROADCAST BY PHILIP LARKIN

Self's the Man and Broadcast



Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985) is one of the appreciated British poet, critic and novelist. Larkin moved to a big house in the famous area of Hull, he and his mother live tighter there. (Chatterjee, 2006)

For Larkin, feminism is an ideology, philosophy, social ethics and a proposal intended to improve the quality of life of women. It is aimed to propose social equality through the liberation of women and opposition to sexism based on sexism and misogyny. The reason is oppression, exclusion, dependence and subordination of women. (Ellen Carol, 2007)

For many centuries, women suffered the consequences of living in a world dominated by men, not right to think and act for her. Feminism in the Larkin poems arises from a social problem, not a fictional situation, and expressed in many works of fiction.

Discussion

Self's the Man and Broadcast

In the case of “Self's the Man", the poem's structure revolves around a man with significant text title. Poem is moving around the repository selfishness of his utterance. This is beyond the things and benefits that are well beyond the confines of the materialism where wilderness covers its rhythms. It is also beyond the prohibition that bars the periphery of things, where the fantasy would not designate the place where it all spouse is in nothingness and infinity of reality. (James, 2008)

The thing is beyond the periphery of things is struck with a curse. The essential desire collides with the wall of the impossible, and the imaginary product back representations of death which he revels and grieves. It is this fear still exists. The threat of death is hanging over him, which led him to position of isolation and retrenchment. The self, somehow, gets self-defense as "Self's the Man".

The ego is barricaded against anything that might affect integrity. He would risk his word and his desire to dispose in a report to the other. (Chatterjee, 2006)

At the periphery of things, it is confined that in the image, he has of himself as an indivisible whole. And its refusal to depend on the other that it was a pleasant way, it recognizes that it is impossible to count up to two without feeling a kind of amputation of himself as a totalizing unit, and that even in death. (John, 2008)

It is with the vain desire to protect them from the other that alienates. The subject is a rule in the distance he puts between himself and the world of others. It has familiar position that depict many poems where the poet observer, "is in her high window, "back to a high room", or on the train which makes it through, as in "Whitsun Weddings", the great arena of life and energy diversity.

Larkin poems is melancholy and nostalgic in sound and soothing, virtually hypnotic in rhythm. Peaceful and composed in the natural outlook it delineates, it arises to act on between restful repose and ...