Home is so Sad

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,      -A home is to provide comfort yet now that ideas gone.         

Shaped to the comfort of the last to go    -Left, no one to please or keep safe anymore.

As if to win them back. Instead, bereft

Of anyone to please,it withers so,            -Can't comfort anyone- has no meaning anymore         

Having no heart to put aside the theft      - Stolen' its old life has been taken and is lost.       

 

And turn again to what it started as,

A joyous shot at how things ought to be,          -little things hold happy memories from the past

Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:

Look at the pictures and the cutlery.                 -show memories and emotions of the past.   

The music in the piano stool. That vase.           -classic nostaglia. ( uncovering the past)

 

This poem shows classic nostalgia, everything was better in the past than it is now. However this shows a different side to Larkin as it's him that's sad and his memories and happiness that has been left behind.

The last stanza the use of the words pictures,cutlery,music and vase show how his life used to be. The pictures may symbolise family and company while the cutlery shows family and gatherings whilst the music implys happiness and good memories. The vase could show life and love, as its now empty without flowers could show little life and the lost love that was held in th past.

 

'Home is so Sad'  In the title Larkin uses antropomorphism, a house is an object therefore doesn't have any emotion or feelings. I feel the house is used to repressent how Larkin feels, his house may hold many memories of the happiness and people that have walked into his life and left. Yet  now there's little reason to relive the past as the memories therefore he is left alone and he feels sad.