afternoons

• "something is pushing them to the side of their own lives"
• "summer is fading"
• "the wind is ruining their courting places"
• "behind them at intervals stand husbands in skilled trades"
• "our wedding:lying near the television"
• Larkin was pessimistic and believed there was nothing worse than teen pregnancy
• Larkin was an observational poet
• the themes are time passing, loss and relationships
• the structure Is all the same to represent the mundane lives of the mothers in the poem
• title represents the peak time of the day or peak time of the mothers lives