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Poem by Philip Larkin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Aubade" is a poem by the English poet Philip Larkin, first published in 1977.[1] The theme of the poem is the terror of death.[2] The title refers to the poetic genre of aubade, poems written about the early morning.
"Aubade" has been described by Frank Wilson of the Philadelphia Inquirer as Larkin's last truly great poem.[3] Larkin described it as an "in-a-funk-about-death" poem.[4]
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