is a summer poem, published the year before Larkin's death, that finds a comparably ghastly prospect not in the night but in the day. The poem makes an art of world-weariness; and unlike Larkin, Sisson had another twenty years to live . . . .
Waking
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Waking by C.H. Sisson
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