1. The Use of Allusion in Poetry
... ; Larkin alludes with a sense of irony while in "Constantly Risking Absurdity," the poet does not. In "A Study of Reading Habits," 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", revealing how through reading he was able to find remedy to his troubles. He ... chap/ who...
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