Explication of Phllip Larkin’s “Cut Grass” Essay

In Cut Grass, Philip Larkin uses onomatopoeia, color and flower symbolism, and punctuation to memorialise that demise is inevitable, and is unaw ar of specific circumstances. By contrasting the cut rat with the typically vibrant, lively month of June, Larkin memorialises the harsh nature of terminal, and its disregard towards its surroundings, tour simultaneously providing a sense of hope once death does arrive.In the first stanza, Larkin uses onomatopoeia to create a vivid image of mown grass. The keen sounds of cut grass imply fierceness, while the next phrase lies frail, is redolent(p) of helplessness and weakness. He continues to parallel sounds by using phrases such as brief is the breath, and exhale, whose sounds resemble their respective actions. Through his use of onomatopoeia, Larkin connects the reader to the grass, and then evokes sympathy. While the reader is sensitive towards the death, it nonetheless continues, regardless of the liveliness of young-leafed June. Larkin also contrasts the brief breath with gigantic death to give that life is comparatively brief when compared to the eternity of death. He makes the majority of the poem, in describing death, one sentence, from long, long until the end, in order to illustrate the prolonged and slow dying. He describes the death at summers pace a lazy and drowsy movement that disregards its blooming surroundings. He shows that death is unavoidable, and is continually occurring, even at supposed joyful moments. However, Larkin also ends the poem with movement, to show that death, although inevitable, is not unavoidably final, and that there is potential for an afterlife.The repeated reference to white also serves to show the two sides of death while it is pure and innocent, it is also melancholy. By personifying death, Larkin shows that though one can evaluate death from different perspectives, it inevitably returns to the cheating(prenominal) and merciless nature of death. He also mentions chestnut flowers, white lilac, and fairy Annes lace, three white flowers, to represent the two sides of death. Larkin personifies the white lilacs, which are typically symbolic or youthful frankness, to bow to death to show that death is unyielding to its subordinate, youth. Howeverwhite hours, and chestnut flowers serve to indicate a luxurious, pleasant atmosphere, which also describes death. Thus, Larkin shows a glimmer of hope for a future after death, and allows the reader easing and relaxation when approaching death.In using the symbolism of white and flowers, onomatopoeia, and relevant punctuation, Larkin is able to portray death as both eternal and hopeful, and to restore a sense of relief around deaths depressing nature.