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This Be The Verse
Poem by English 20th century poet Philip Larkin
"This Be The Verse" is a lyric poem in three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985).
It was written around April 1971, was first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist, and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows.
It is one of Larkin's best-known poems; the opening lines ("They fuck you up, your mum and dad") are among his most frequently quoted.
Larkin himself compared it with W. B. Yeats's "Lake Isle of Innisfree" and said he expected to hear it recited in his honour by a thousand Girl Guides before he died.
Philip larkin poems about parents
It is frequently parodied. Television viewers in the United Kingdom voted it one of the "Nation's Top 100 Poems".[1]
Synopsis
The poem consists of three stanzas of four iambic tetrameter feet on an alternating rhyme scheme.
The speaker, addressing the reader directly, expresses the idea that parents put a lot of emotional