Philip Larkin NOTHING TO BE SAID poem analysis—literary devices & poetry—20th century literature

20th CENTURY POETRY ANALYSIS | Reading & literary analysis of Philip Larkin’s stark & brutal –but beautiful– poem ‘Nothing to be Said’, published in his poetry collection The Whitsun Weddings (1964). How does Philip Larkin use literary devices & figures of speech e.g. anaphora, epistrophe, zeugma, aural echoes, enjambement, alliteration, assonance, sibilance, antimetabole & chiasmus in the poem ‘Nothing to be Said’?

20th Century English Literature Analysis
Close reading of Philip Larkin’s ‘Nothing to be Said’ poem

OUTLINE OF LECTURE
reading & literary analysis of one of Philip Larkin’s poems, ‘Nothing to be Said’ (published in The Whitsun Weddings)
video focusses on Philip Larkin’s technical mastery, his deployment of literary devices & figures of speech
including Philip Larkin’s use of anaphora, epistrophe, zeugma, aural echoes, enjambement, alliteration, assonance, sibilance, & antimetabole (a kind of chiasmus) – with definitions & explanations

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