Broadcast / Faith Healing

Broadcast:
Broadcast is a love poem about music and a concert. The way Larkin writes implies the music doesn't appeal to him as much as others as he describes the music of "snivelling of the violins" this makes them sound unhealthy and not very appealing. The rhyme in each stanza is similar perhaps showing that their relationship has little excitement and is boring.
Larkin describes his love, in a way which implys he misses her "outline" and "withering" show his memory is perhaps fading. He describes himself as "desperate" in trying to pick her out showing he may be unable to live without her. But the final line in the final stanza sums their relationship up as he wants to look around and see her "applauding" showing he wants her to appreciate him.
The final stanza has pathetic fallacy "leaves on half- emptied trees" this reflects autumn and a changing season.
This poem has some context at the side about Maeve's response to the poem he had written a line that implied that Maeve would rather listen to music than to him which is reflected in the poem. The fact Larkin tries to like and understand music suggests he wants to try and win her back but could also show that Maeve just wants a friendship whereas Larkin See's more.

The poem links to Arundel tomb with the idea of love and art (music) also Wild Oats as again the women aren't as interested in him.
Technique used:
-Caesura
-Pathetic fallacy
-antromorphism.

Faith Healing:
This poem is about a healer, he is describes as having "silver hair" showing his age but along with wisdom also the "dark suit" with the "white collar" shows power and authority but also represents religion. Larkin still become sexist as he describes women as "dumb" with "tears" being stereotypical implying women are weak. Larkin describes the crowd as having "eyes squeeze grief" showing you can tell by their eyes that they have bottled up emotions for so long. Even though the healer has been described as helping the people but "nothing cures" giving a loss of hope and that "all time has disproved" he may be saying that religion cant solve everything.
Overall this poem is mocking the idea of a 'healer' and that there is no cure if you cant be loved, but after all love cant heal everything as the absence of love can be made up by religion.