High Windows

... that you're at the end of here.

It's the same at the end of H- High Windows where suddenly you're-

Yeah

... untalkative and out of reach.

And the final three lines about thickened beauty is typical of a lot of Larkin poems.

It's a structure you see a lot of Larkin poems, and if you're interested, see the poem High Windows in particular, which has a kind of poetic thought expressed at the end of the poem that, in effect... gives the poem's meaning, tells the reader, you know, what the poem's been building up to.

And prior to the closing lines, you can see the subtle shifts in our sense of life, most of life's routine and mundane, but suddenly you notice things have changed.

And then Larkin tells us this.

And he only ever published two more editions of poetry, one in 1963.

So nearly 10 years later, which was The Whitson Weddings.

And then again, 10 years later in 1974, High Windows.

And it pretty much came to an end after that with one or two exceptions, including an amazing poem called Au Barde, which we'll talk about later.