Home Is So Sad
Home Is So Sad - meaning Summary
Domestic Absence Made Visible
Larkin portrays an empty house as a relic shaped by absent occupants, full of belongings that claim to preserve past warmth but instead underline loss. Objects—photos, cutlery, a piano stool, a vase—serve as mute evidence of happier intentions now failed. The poem observes how domestic spaces, once active with human feeling, become hollow imitations of joy, arrested where life and purpose have moved on.
Read Complete AnalysesHome is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped to the comfort of the last to go As if to win them back. Instead, bereft Of anyone to please, it withers so, Having no heart to put aside the theft And turn again to what it started as, A joyous shot at how things ought to be, Long fallen wide. You can see how it was: Look at the pictures and the cutlery. The music in the piano stool. That vase.
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