Class 11 English Elective POETRY 3. COMING प्रश्न बैंक - सह - उत्तर पुस्तक (Question Bank-Cum-Answer Book) Class 11 English Elective (POETRY ) 3.
COMING - Philip Larkin MAIN POINTS ☞ The poem 'Coming' is composed by Philip
Larkin. ☞ Coming has been taken from the volume The
Less Deceived which establishes a kinship with the environment. ☞ This is a nineteen-line poem that can be separated
into one set of nine lines and another set of ten lines. ☞ It has no rhyme scheme. ☞ On longer evenings when the sun begins to
set , cold, and yellow light washes over the tops of peaceful houses. ☞ A songbird, thrush sings from its perch in
the shrubs of an empty garden, its youthful voice startling the brickwork of
the nearby houses. ☞ The 'thrush' announces the arrival of
spring. ☞ The poet says that though his childhood
was forgotten boredom, he feels like a child who has walked in on two adults
making up after a disagreement, and, unable to understand what's going on apart
from the adults' strange laughter. ☞ He begins to feel…
