Philip Larkin- Annus Mirabilis

 Philip Larkin holds strong message in altering but repetetive rhyme scheme of ABBAB. Within the musicality of differing rhymes, alliteration, repetition of lines and differing feet: trimeter and tetrameter, he suddenly alters the mood from the third stanza which gives a change in the ton of voice. He also alters the feet and rhyme scheme from trimeter to tetrameter and the other way around, line after line, successfully stressing the message he wishes to tell the readers. Such alternation hid underneath seems as if he is keeping readers in tension. Although read from fast skim it seems like he is talking about his own first sexual experience, readers can know he is talking more about something deeper as Larkin was already 41 years old on 1963. Instead, he is talking about the great sexual revolution that took part in 1963, bringing up Lady Chatterly's Lover on the fourth line of first and last stanza. Also, he uses Beatles' first LP, which is assumed to be refering to the particular song "Please Please Me", 1963. It holds comparatively sexual connotations in the lines as they sing "Whoa yeah, like I please you". Larkin's strong voice  as he says "So life was never netter than/ In nineteen sixty-three/ (Though just too late for me)-/ Between the end of the Chatterly ban/ And the Beatle's first LP" (16-19) represents his support on sexual revoultion of the day.