Larkin

What events from his life may have affected their work?
His mother was a nervous and passive woman
Neither friends nor relatives ever visited the family home, and he developed a stammer.




What society is the text set in?
The Whitsun Weddings was written during a patriarchal society.




What society is the text written for?
Philp Larkin writes his poems for a patriarchal society as Larkin was middle class his work portrays a society where him and the bourgeoisie are superior to the working class.


Their attitudes to gender, social class etc.
Larkin writes in a way that presents the proletariat as weak and inferior throughout society due to their class. His work also comes across as sexist in the way that women have little power and his woke seems to agree with this and see it as expectable.

 Identifying the genre of your text
 Traditional