Sons

Key Themes: Memory, Youth, love
Links To Larkin: Dockery and Son, Reference Back, Love Songs In Age
Summary Of The Poem: This poem is about the persona looking back on his youth, and who he was when he was younger, and then goes on to describe and compare how similar his son is to how he once was. In stanza 3 there is a philisphical shift, which is similar to Larkin, as the persona is using opposites to describe his son, which could be a reference to how his son doesn't know who he is yet. The persona then goes onto empathise with their son as it reminds them of when they were younger. The persona finishes off by inferring a warning to his son that if he doesn't change the he is then he'll become 'wrongly named'.

Imitations

Key Themes: Love, Death, Memories, Youth
Links To Larkin: Broadcast, Dockery and Son, 
Summary Of The Poem: The persona begins by saying and describing their surroundings and how everything is pure and fresh before going on to describe her child and comapres him to many things to try and put across his physical appearance and his personality 'Chameleon,my soft diamond, my deciduous evergreen' which is saying that he is changing as he grows older and could be fading away from his parent and is becoming part of the background and although he appears hard on the outside he is soft on the inside and has a heart of gold but is now more distant from his parent so they're unsure of who he is anymore as he's a 16 year old teenager so doesn't communicate with his parent about anything. The persona then goes on to talk about how the parent remembers her youth and what she was like when she was 16, and how close she was to her father when he was alive. The persona then talks about 'white butterflies' which suggests innoccence and the souls of the dead ones, so her father. Finally the persona finishes off by saying that the bond the parent had with their father is 'elastic' which suggests that the bond will never break, even though her father is dead. 

A Letter From Ogmore

Key Themes: Time, Memories, Death, Loss, Love
Links To Larkin: MCMXIV
Summary Of The Poem: The persona is talking about moving out of the 20th century and into the next and is wondering what would be worth remembering and what he should forget and leave behind. The persona then says that 'even my nostalgia is becoming history' which suggests that the persona is no longer missing the past and is looking forward to the future, however the poem then contradicts itself in this statement as it could be saying that the persona dislikes how quickly the time has passed and it seemed like yesterday when he was a youth or the war was only a year ago and now time is so much further forward and he is beginning to lose loved ones. Also the persona says ''a genealogy of ghosts' which is suggesting that when people die they join a different group and if we don't remember them or talk about them then they will be forgotten like 'ghosts' and will become 'ghosts' of the past. Finally the persona goes on to say that 'strangers come sealed in Fords and Nissans,' which suggests that the place he once knew and loved and the people who lived in that place are no longer around and 'strangers' in modern cars and coming into Ogmore and are replacing what was once there'. 

Uncle Isidore

Key Themes: Morals, Life decisions
Links To Larkin: Mr Bleaney
Summary Of The Poem: The persona starts off by describing Uncle Isidore as a 'smelly schnorrer' which suggests that  the persona sees Uncle Isidore as a lesser human being and doesn't think very highly of him. The poem then goes on further and takes a slightly religious route as the persona is saying that in society when there is chaos we as humans need to take a stand and do something and not let ourselves belive that God will solve and sort everything out, suggesting that the persona is an atheist. However it then goes onto say the 'Master of the Universe' which is refferring to God and Uncle Isidore hopes that God will help him out of poverty. Finally the persona seems to be judgemental of Uncle Isidore and is blaming him.