existentialist bent in Philip Larkin’s poetry

Philip Larkin reveals in his poetry the post-war mood and feeling that was predominant in lives of contemporary British people. Their existence was overshadowed by threat of mighty nuclear war that the world never saw before. Larkin himself experienced existential predicament of his countrymen as a representative of his time. He candidly reflected what he noticed and felt. The varied existentialist issues incorporated by Larkin lend his poetry a philosophical dimension. The present research paper focuses on anxiety, alienation, death from the perspective of two noted existentialist thinkers, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre.