Solar
Solar - meaning Summary
Sun as Solitary Giver
The poem addresses the sun as a solitary, majestic presence—simultaneously remote and vividly alive. Larkin likens it to a lion-faced, stalkless flower whose continual outpouring of light and heat feels gratuitous and unreturned. Human need is imagined as cyclical, rising and falling toward that steady generosity. The piece meditates on the sun’s both origin and giver, emphasizing constancy, distance, and an almost impersonal benevolence.
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