Analysis of Broadcast by Philip Larkin
- Larkin is listening to radio broadcast of a concert which Maeve Brennan is at.
- 'I think of your face among all those faces' - picks her out from the crowd.
- 'One of your gloves unnoticed on the floor/ Beside those new, slightly out-moded shoes.' Inside jokes about her clumsiness and her clothing choices.
- Onomatopoeia: 'whispering' 'coughing' 'scuttle' 'snivelling' - helps us picture the scene.
- 'Here it goes quickly dark. I lose/ All but the outline of the still withering' - loses her in the darkness and becomes desperate to her 'hands, tiny in all that air, applauding'.
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