1. The Use of Allusion in Poetry
... ," Philip Larkin uses an allusion to cheap fiction throughout the poem in order to draw the contrast between the speaker's adolescence and adulthood, illustrating how over time the speaker could no longer find escape in fiction as it soon becomes his reality. Immediately into the poem, Larkin writes "[w]hen getting my nose in a book/Cured more things short of school ... ...
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- Grade Level: Graduate