Philip Larkin 1922~1985 《菲利浦 拉金詩選 》河北教育 2003

 希尼詩 (Seamus Heaney 1939-2013) 其人、文集、訪談He rubbed shoulders with a constellation of great poets: Ted Hughes, Czeslaw Milosz, Philip Larkin,

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Philip Larkin was born #OTD in 1922. Seamus Heaney wrote this poem about him to be featured in a memorial volume after his death in 1985. Larkin was a poet who kept a 9-5 job as a librarian. In this poem, Heaney takes on the voice of Larkin. He weaves lines from Dante's Inferno II into a scene where he imagines meeting the shade of the poet making the journey back from work.

Image Description: A portrait of Philip Larkin. He is dressed in a suit standing against a wall. There is a bookcase behind him. The text reads: The Journey Back

Larkin’s shade surprised me. He quoted Dante:

‘Daylight was going and the umber air

Soothing every creature on the earth,

Freeing them from their labours everywhere.

I alone was girding myself to face

The ordeal of my journey and my duty

And not a thing had changed, as rush-hour buses

Bore the drained and laden through the city.

I might have been a wise king setting out

Under the Christmas lights- except that

It felt more like the forewarned journey back

Into the heartland of the ordinary.

Still my old self. Ready to knock one back.

A nine-to-five man who had seen poetry.’

From Seeing Things (1991).

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