Ambulances

'Ambulances' is a symbol of morality and mankind's fight against it. The title shows desperation along with being frantic with a sense of life or death. The first stanza opens with a simile "closed like confessionals" this portrays the ambulance as being a place to confess sins before your death and the doctors replace the priest and help you in their way. The idea that the ambulance reaches "all streets" shows that everyone can have help when in need.
The second stanza is  again a typical Larkin as he shows his snobbery towards certain people, he describes the "women as coming from the shops" implying that's the only thing they are good at and the children are described as being "strewn" meaning they look thrown and are just objects place to make the town messy. He uses a oxymoron "wild white" to show the ill people the colour 'white' is often associated with peace or a being bland whereas 'wild' is meant to be a brighter more exciting colour. The word 'Red' also may show a difference in opinion as the colour is often associated with danger or trouble. Larkin describes the people who are watching as being pitiful and almost sarcastic saying "poor soul" at their "own distress" showing they are so absorbed in their self that they don't show sympathy to others. A paradox is used in "for bourne away in deadened air" shows the cycle of birth and death and how the air seems silent and 'deadened' showing no life.
Larkin's view on family seems quite negative because he says "unique random blend of families and fashions, there at last begin to loosen" this line implies Larkin means that together families can be so different  and your searching for a meaning yet before you die everything changes as you begin to feel closer to others and that when you realise your coming to an end, your life means more to you. But death is shown to be lonely and all you do is wait for "what is left to come", perhaps showing you wait for your death.
The title Ambulance is quite meaningful as Larkin focuses on the bad points of the vehicle and how it focuses on the death yet life can also be brought by this. The rhyming in this poem is quite consistent and has a more structured, patterned rhyme. the first stanza alone has a repeated rhyme this may suggest the circle of life. The idea that you need to return to the start.