Analysis of Philip Larkin’s Modesty

Do not over-brooder things Are too shy. Thoughts that shuffle round Like pence Through each reign, take on d let to their simplest sense Yet re chief(prenominal). Weeds are not supposed to grow But by degrees Some achieve a flower, although No maven sees. This is apparently a humble meter. The content and the form are both about the same thing regarding simplicity or, as the title denotes, modesty.It does not post very complex ideas even though they can be considered as important ones. The lines vary in length giving the poem a bounce, equivalent some kind of internal discussion where the speaker argues with himself drawing a rhythm or pattern that, even inorganic in principle, with assonance riming and more or less fixed number of syllables, it is constructed in a way that finally matches the static tone of a modest prayer, where the speaker emphasizes the main ideas providing them as some kind of chorus.The poem partially exposes the manifesto of this generation of poets, wi th their rejection o romanticism or excess in general in poetry, trying to achieve a more real and closer poetry not full of symbolism conveyed by obscure words and expressions and intricate emotions. In this way, the poem in the first stanza states how these plain or more simple words and ideas are truer, they do not lie, they are too shy to do so, and, therefore, in this sense more genuine maybe, not covered with the mud of complexity, speaking openly the mind of the poet. The second stanza expands this concept of truth.No matter how far you shuffle your own thoughts or for how long, earning them away, wearing them down, eventually they remain, In your mind, or, even better, they are purified by getting to a level of ultimate simplicity. The final stanza uses the metaphor of weeds get flowers, something quite Improbable In principle, but that linked to the process described In the previous stanza gets to convey an Idea of permute In quality. Stoically, modesty by degree turns I nto beauty, and here we face the aesthetic level of truth. A final state that can be witnessed, but Just as a result, not as a process.No-one sees how the flower becomes a flower, yet It Is there. Analysis of Philip Larrikin Modesty By lexical Thoughts that shuffle round like pence wearing them away, Wearing them down, eventually they remain, in your mind, or, stanza uses the metaphor of weeds becoming flowers, something quite improbable in principle, but that linked to the process described in the previous stanza gets to convey an idea of change in quality. Simplicity, modesty by degree turns into beauty, just as a result, not as a process. No-one sees how the flower becomes a flower, yet it is there.