Money
Money - meaning Summary
Money's Persuasive Complaint
Larkin's speaker treats money as a reproacher that highlights missed pleasures and freedoms. He compares hoarding with how others convert cash into houses, cars and relationships, suggesting that deferred living can never reclaim youth. Saving is shown as inadequate against desire and time. The final image turns money into a distant, melancholic view of a town, linking material restraint to a pervasive sadness about loss and limitation.
Read Complete AnalysesQuarterly, is it, money reproaches me: 'Why do you let me lie here wastefully? I am all you never had of goods and sex, You could get them still by writing a few cheques.' So I look at others, what they do with theirs: They certainly don't keep it upstairs. By now they've a second house and car and wife: Clearly money has something to do with life - In fact, they've a lot in common, if you enquire: You can't put off being young until you retire, And however you bank your screw, the money you save Won't in the end buy you more than a shave. I listen to money singing. It's like looking down From long French windows at a provincial town, The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad In the evening sun. It is intensely sad.
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