Annus Mirabilis
Annus Mirabilis - context Summary
Between Censorship and Pop
Larkin’s poem, published in 1964 in The Whitsun Weddings, frames 1963 as a brief cultural hinge between two public events: the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles’ first LP. It adopts a wry, retrospective voice that characterizes the year as a sudden loosening of sexual and cultural constraints, celebrating a collective liberation while registering the speaker’s ironic personal lateness—"too late for me."
Read Complete AnalysesSexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles' first LP. Up to then there'd only been A sort of bargaining, A wrangle for the ring, A shame that started at sixteen And spread to everything. Then all at once the quarrel sank: Everyone felt the same, And every life became A brilliant breaking of the bank, A quite unlosable game. So life was never better than In nineteen sixty-three (Though just too late for me) - Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles' first LP.
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