Rácz, IstvánFarkas, Orsolya2021-05-172021-05-172021-04-25http://hdl.handle.net/2437/309790The first part of this thesis analyses Philip Larkin’s poem, “Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph”, in a more detailed way and differentiate two voices: the masculine and the feminine. The second part discusses the possibility of why these voices developed in Larkin’s works and the importance of photography as a symbol and in general in the poem mentioned above. Philip Larkin’s poetry is often defined as direct, harsh, and lucid, but it also considers arcane areas and vaguenesses of thought. Any poem of Larkin’s cannot be fully interpreted linearly without losing what arouses buried in the syntactical and the adopted vocabulary contortions. Reasoning and rationality are sometimes assigned to support the intellectual journeys that Larkin’s poetical personae find themselves involved in. Thinking, reasoning, and imagination predominate throughout poems in which the poet tries to manifest an appreciation of and knowledge of the existential state. The thesis argues that Larkin’s work is preoccupied with interpreting mental and psychological deepness through the inseparable, on the level of meaning, masculine and feminine voices.32enPhilip LarkinPoetryLines on a Young Lady's PhotographdiplomamunkaDEENK Témalista::Irodalomtudomány