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I watch you sleep
densely metaphorical lyrics
elegy and celebration
Courtesy of the artist
his poems ‘begin in Kansas and end in Oz’
High Windows by Philip Larkin membership I watch you sleepLarkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Verse', 'The Explosion', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet. Rather than words comes the
