Understanding Philip Larkin’s The Whitsun Weddings for A Level – Gavin Smithers Lage Prijs

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is a significant figure in post- 1900 English and British poetry – and so is a good choice to study at A level. At present, the WJEC exam board offers students Larkin’s collection “The Whitsun Weddings” as one half of one of the five paired options for unit 2. The AS/A level qualification requires candidates to analyse one poem in detail, and to write an essay comparing Larkin and the counterpart poetry collection (at present, Carol Ann Duffy’s “Mean Time”). Inside this concise, cl…