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    Starbursts

    Jun 04, 2018 2 minutes
    LANGDON HAMMER

    PHILIP LARKIN’S POEM “High Windows” ends with one of modern poetry’s indelible images. Brooding on how familiar “Bonds and gestures” have been “pushed to one side” by postwar society, leaving nothing to hold people together except a vague promise of happiness, Larkin points to the flash of light on “sun-comprehending glass, /

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