Mr. Bleaney by Philip Larkin | Text | Paraphrase | Summary
In the final stanza Philip Larkin talks about the extent to which ‘how we live measures our own nature’. In the mid-1950s he is renting a room previously occupied by a Mr Bleaney and, as he glances around the room and talks with his landlady, a picture of Mr Bleaney and the dingy room emerges. What do we learn about the former tenant and the way he lived his life from the first five stanzas? How does the landlady view Mr Bleaney?
The sudden statement ‘I’ll take it’ in the third stanza might surprise us, given the description of the room, but the narrator is clearly increasingly identifying with Mr Bleaney and his lonely, predictable life. Does the form and structure of the poem reinforce the sense of a monotonous life in the poem?
Notice how the pace of the poem increases in the penultimate stanza with the use of enjambment, as it moves towards a more urgent conclusion as the narrator confronts the reality of his situation. Even so, the final words of the poem are tentative and hesitant, and a return to the weariness of tone seen earlier in the poem:‘I don’t know’.
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