was just a detail friends would see.
The speaker of a poem by this man bemoans the idea of "someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare" and blames his problems on "something to do with violence, / a long way back, and wrong rewards, / and arrogant eternity." The speaker of another poem by this man experiences a "sharp tender shock" upon seeing a stone earl's hand still clasping his wife's, as "such faithfulness in effigy / was just a detail friends would see." This author of "Love Again" and "An Arundel Tomb" described death as "nothing to think with / nothing to love or link with / the anesthetic from which none come round." For 10 points, name this 20th-century British poet of "Aubade," who acknowledged that "your mum and dad" "were fucked up in their turn" in "This Be the Verse."
The speaker of a poem by this man bemoans the idea of "someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare" and blames his problems on "something to do with violence, / a long way back, and wrong rewards, / and arrogant eternity.
Philip Larkin