Ignorance/ Nothing to be said.

Ignorance.
This poem comes back to resemble Larkins negetive views, the poem is about life and the idea of a meaningless exisence. He uses the idea of making a choice without knowing much about it. This links to the idea that he feels in life you make choices without looking at consquences or reasons why you chose certain ideas. He backs this idea with "knowing nothing, never to be the same"that if you know little then you are less likely to be intrigued than to if you know more than you should, being a different person. Larkin uses the idea of being " ignorant of the way things work" not knowing much is often harder as you question more yet "for our flesh" for yourself in time you age and change; as does time.
This poem links to 'Nothing to be said' as in both poems there's an idea of life being pointless and the last line in 'Ignorance' is "have no idea why" the idea that in life you have so many questions but many are left unanswered or untold because in life things change and get forgotten.

Nothing to be said.
The main point in this poem is reflected in other poems. It also shows a divide in culture or class, the idea that the rich or poor live their life in different ways. The location of this poem is found by "coble-close" and the "mill-towns" suggesting Larkin located it in Northern England. To finish the last stanza Larkin uses a paradox "life is slow dying" this idea reflects that live lasts to long when all you have as a result is death and to combat the "ways of slow dying" all you can do is "hunting" or "holding a garden party" to just fill up the time you have between birth and death.
Larkin shows the idea that "love and money" along with birth and death are all equal, as you cant measure one without the other.
the last stanza Larkin uses a 'zeugma'( connection of words with different meanings) "hours giving evidence Or birth" implying both are equal yet in different ways. The last line "to some it means nothing; others it leaves nothing to be said" showing two types of people the optimistic people who don't care and the pessimistic who feel it offers a perfect explanation and sums life up.