Home is so sad & Pluto

• 2. In both Duffy and Larkin's poems ‘Pluto’ and ‘Home is so sad’, both poets reflect on how time ‘offers nothing in return’ and causes loss, pain and suffering, especially when they grieve about the past.
• “an hourglass weeping the future into the past"
• “brown coins of age on my face the size of ha’pennies”
•  “A joyous shot/ long fallen wide”
• “Home is so sad, it stays as it was left”
• A03 - “An hourglass weeping the future into the past”. Duffy has said herself that “I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotions”.

  An emotional reading of old age
• A03 - “A joyous shot/long fallen wide”

  Larkin visited his widowed mothers house after his fathers death and felt his missing presence deeply. Can allude to this tone of loss of hope, disappointment and perhaps a feeling of emptiness.
• A05 - King coined Larkins work as ‘the poetry of disappointment’. Can be true when you mention the metaphor ‘a joyous shot/ long fallen wide’ - reveals the hope that was once prevalent.