Since the Majority of Me
Since the Majority of Me - meaning Summary
Majorities and Private Silences
Larkin’s poem sketches a relationship split where each partner’s majority self rejects the other, producing an agreed separation and separate routines. Yet the poem registers an ironic reversal: the quieter, minority parts of each person—regret, longing, unkept promises—resurface nightly, seeking renewal but failing to change the divorce of everyday life. The voice is restrained, noting how private silences complicate apparent finality.
Read Complete AnalysesSince the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forwith, and we Divide. And sure of what to do We disinfect new blocks of days For our majorities to rent With unshared friends and unwalked ways, But silence too is eloquent: A silence of minorities That, unopposed at last, return Each night with cancelled promises They want renewed. They never learn.
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