Days

Days - meaning Summary

Life Confined to Days

Larkin’s short poem frames days as the basic terrain of human existence: we live in days and should be happy within them. The opening rhetorical question is met with a plain, almost pragmatic answer that restores attention to ordinary time. The closing image—priest and doctor running in their coats—adds a wry note, suggesting that attempts to transcend or explain daily life summon authorities but do not alter the everyday fact of living in days.