Larkin comments on what he sees, contrasting the natural world with modern, commercialised society. ... It insinuates that although the town is vast and dark like a shadow, it is not real. ... This creates a contrast between this environment and the calm of the suburbs. ... The people in the town are describes as being a 'cut-price crowd' and 'simple' . ... Between the first and second stanzas there are numerous images which contrast. ...

• Word Count: 2501
• Approx Pages: 10

Eliot wrote to Conrad Aiken on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls...Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead." ...

• Word Count: 4134
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Narratives gave way to lyrics, above all to 'impressions', capturing the sensation of an immediate scene or moment; a development paralleled in the 'Impressionist' painting of artists like Sickert and Whistler. ...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42