Days (poem)

"Days" is a short poem (10 lines) by Philip Larkin, written in 1953^[1] and included in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings.

It begins with a section of 6 lines, opening

What are days for?

in a mock-contented tone.

The final 4 lines bring a brutal reply

Ah, solving that question

Brings the priest and the doctor

In their long coats

Running over the fields.^[2]

References

↑ Dunsby, Jonathan (2004). Making words sing: nineteenth- and twentieth-century song. Cambridge University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-521-83661-6.
↑ Glancy, Ruth F. (2002). Thematic guide to British poetry. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-313-31379-0.

Philip Larkin

Poetry collections	The North Ship (1945) The Less Deceived (1955) The Whitsun Weddings (1964) High Windows (1974)

Posthumous collections	Collected Poems (1988 and 2003)

Poems	"The Whitsun Weddings" (1964) "An Arundel Tomb" (1964) "Mr Bleaney" (1955) "This Be The Verse" (1974) "Days" (1964) "MCMXIV (1964)

Other publications	Jill (1945) A Girl in Winter (1947) The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973) Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985 (1992)

Related	List of poems by Philip Larkin Larkin at Sixty (1982) Philip Larkin Society Larkin 25 Relationships that influenced Philip Larkin Mr Larkin's Awkward Day Brunette Coleman (juvenile pseudonym)

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