This poem takes its title from Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "Requiem." Its middle stanza discusses 
This poem takes its title from Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "Requiem." Its middle stanza discusses "fools in old-style hats and coats, who half the time were soppy-stern and half at one another's throats." Focusing on a pair of figures who "fill you with the faults they had and add some extra, just for you," this poem appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows. Ending by telling the addressee to "get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself," for 10 points, what is this Philip Larkin poem which notes "They fuck you up, your mum and dad"?
This poem takes its title from Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "Requiem."
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