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28,000

28,000. What does this number represent?. The average person will live 28,000 days. How many have you got left? More importantly, what are you planning to do with them?. LO: to analyse the meaning of the poem and identify comparative links with Equus. Days by Larkin. What are days for?

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28,000

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  1. 28,000 What does this number represent?

  2. The average person will live 28,000 days... How many have you got left? More importantly, what are you planning to do with them?

  3. LO: to analyse the meaning of the poem and identify comparative links with Equus. Days by Larkin

  4. What are days for? • Days are where we live. • They come, they wake us • Time and time over. • They are to be happy in: • Where can we live but days? • Ah, solving that question • Brings the priest and the doctor • In their long coats • Running over the fields.

  5. Short, no story, no characters, simple language, everyday notion...so what does this little poem mean? Line by line analysis

  6. What is the tone of this question? What are days for?

  7. Days = home • What about nights? • What are the connotations of daylight and darkness? Days are where we live.

  8. If this the answer to the opening question, is it a good one? They come, they wake us

  9. What is the ambiguity of this line? Time and time over

  10. What is the tone of this line? They are to be happy in:

  11. Is there an alternative answer? Where can we live but days?

  12. What is the significance of 'ah'? Ah, solving that question

  13. Why? Brings the priest and the doctor

  14. What does this mean in a literal sense? • What does it symbolise? In their long coats

  15. How is the image of the fields spoilt by the priest and the doctor? Running over the fields.

  16. Write a sentence summarising the meaning of this poem. • For an extra challenge, include AO3 and 4. Activity

  17. In this short, enigmatic poem, Larkin addresses the issues of mortality, illness and death with remarkable simplicity. Despite huge social change and Larkin's concern with the contemporary decline of civilisation (similar to TS Eliot), death and sickness remain inexorable realities. His break in form from stately stanzas in pentameter to free verse in short lines is held together by the repetition of the words 'days', 'they' and the 'v, sounds. Its strong effect comes from its break in form which emphasises life's great mystery that even the doctor and priest cannot solve.

  18. Read Equuspg 89: ‘He was there…’ • Consider what comparative link you could make with the poems we have studied today. • Write a comparative paragraph. • Prepare a coursework question. Use the document I gave you to guide you. Also available on the blog. Bring to next lesson. Homework

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