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Analysis Of This Be The Verse

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“This Be The Verse,” a lyric poem with an alternating rhyme scheme, has many themes portrayed throughout. Within the three stanzas of the poem, there is a different theme portrayed but overall the poem conveys the same message. For the first stanza the theme that is portrayed is the unintentional fault by default. Larkin starts the opening of the poem with “The fuck you up.” He does this so that he can get the reader 's attention as well as those who are average readers, for example everyday readers, can relate or understand his writing. The poem then continues to say who messes you, the future generation, up and they do it which is more so the most important part of the first stanza and even the poem, they will fill you up with the fault they had and add some extra for you. in which meaning that each child is filled with downfalls their parents had the downfalls their parents got from their parents, “add some extra.” …show more content…

You know this is the much older generation because in the poem it states, “ By fools in old style hats and coats.” This gives the parents from stanza one someone to place the blame towards because just as the new generation looked upon someone to place their bad behaviors or habits upon, the parents did as well. The theme for this stanza is a bad traits from previous generations. The new generation takes from their parents in which they take from their parents. This keeps going back and

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