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Born Yesterday

Born Yesterday. Philip Larkin. Learning Objectives. AO1 : respond to texts critically and imaginatively, select and evaluate textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations.

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Born Yesterday

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  1. Born Yesterday Philip Larkin

  2. Learning Objectives • AO1: respond to texts critically and imaginatively, select and evaluate textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations. • AO2: explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes and settings.

  3. Born Yesterday • for Sally Amis • Tightly-folded bud,I have wished you somethingNone of the others would:Not the usual stuffAbout being beautiful,Or running off a springOf innocence and love -They will all wish you that,And should it prove possible,Well, you’re a lucky girl. • But if it shouldn’t, thenMay you be ordinary;Have, like other women,An average of talents:Not ugly, not good-looking,Nothing uncustomaryTo pull you off your balance,That, unworkable itself,Stops all the rest from working.In fact, may you be dull -If that is what a skilled,Vigilant, flexible,Unemphasised, enthralledCatching of happiness is called.

  4. Questions, questions Who is the narrator of the poem? What is the relationship in the poem?

  5. Born Yesterday • for Sally Amis • Tightly-folded bud,I have wished you somethingNone of the others would:Not the usual stuffAbout being beautiful,Or running off a springOf innocence and love -They will all wish you that,And should it prove possible,Well, you’re a lucky girl.

  6. But if it shouldn’t, thenMay you be ordinary;Have, like other women,An average of talents:Not ugly, not good-looking,Nothing uncustomaryTo pull you off your balance,That, unworkable itself,Stops all the rest from working.

  7. In fact, may you be dull -If that is what a skilled,Vigilant, flexible,Unemphasised, enthralledCatching of happiness is called.

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