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- Title
TIME AND TRANSITIONS IN LARKIN'S POETRY.
- Authors
Milojkovic, Marija
- Abstract
This paper continues research into Larkin's poetry started in Milojkovic (2011b), where computational collocation-based analysis proves Philip Larkin's reputation as a depressive, but disproves his alleged atheism. In Milojkovic (2011b) a complete corpus of Larkin's poetry is analysed for key symbols and compared with the famous passage from 1 Corinthians 13 describing the transition from an incomplete human state to that of maturity, self-knowledge and perfection. Both Larkin's corpus and the biblical passage are checked against a reference corpus (a complete edition of the Times newspaper of the year 1995, created by Tim Johns and consisting of 44.5 million words, referred to in this paper as the Times corpus). After stating the findings of Milojkovic (2011b), this paper offers further research into Larkin's poetry on the same premises, but this time employing semantic prosody of the grammatical strings found in the biblical passage. It is shown that grammatical strings carry specific semantic prosodies (e.g. 'and now a' versus 'and now I') and thus may be used as means of interpretation (e.g. 'but when did'). Lexical collocation and semantic prosodies of grammatical strings show that in Larkin's poetry transitions repeat themselves, time in most cases stands still, and that Philip Larkin's view of love does not change over time.
- Subjects
ENGLISH poetry; LARKIN, Philip, 1922-1985; COLLOCATION (Linguistics); CORPORA; POETRY (Literary form); SYSTEMIC grammar
- Publication
NAWA Journal of Language & Communication, 2012, Vol 6, Issue 1, p102
- ISSN
1993-3835
- Publication type
Article