Q : Explore the catastrophic situation of “ The Explosion ” by Philip Larkin . “ The Explosion ” by Philip Larkin is a heart-breaking poem about an Explosion that took the lives of several men. Larkin worked as a university librarian for over 30 years , head librarian at the University of Hull. Published in 1974 , “ The Explosion ” is not a response to any particular mining accident(British mining). He measures the impact of the disaster on The men killed in the mine and on their families who gather in a memorial service to mourn the Loss, struggling to make sense of it. Larkin , by reputation one of the most cerebral poets in the Canon of 20 th -century British poetics, was known not only for poems rich with intellectual argument but for intricate prosody. The poem contains nine-stanza poem that’s written in free verse. The poet doesn’t chose to follow a specific rhyme scheme or use a pattern of meter. Ian Hamilton says, “ The power of the poem lies in its refusal to ex
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