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Here is another Larkin poem where we see him embark upon a train journey- but from the start of the poem to the end the train is gradually slowing down. The first stanza is a negative outlook on the man made urban town/city that Larkin is witnessing, with it's "gull-marked mud" the fields were too "thin and thistled to be called meadows". This stanza also shows the speed of the train, how it is constantly "swerving" and it links in parallel to the rivers "slow presence". 

Stanza 1 and 2 both juxtapose each other as they show the difference between the urban man made and the rural landscape. The mechanical shift within this stanza is shown through the list of typical 'wants' in life. The "electric mixers, toasters, washers" are the domestic necessities in life- the "desires". We see how this town/city is busy industrially with the "crain cluster", "barge-crowded water" all symbolism the modern growth in mechanical usage, which is why this stanza is in stark contrast with the first one due to the change in time.

Dannie Abse

Dannie Abse is a poet, author, doctor and playwright, in 2012 he was nominated an CBE for his services to literature and poetry.  Brought up in Cardiff, Abse draws on both his Welsh roots and Jewish inheritance but is above all famous for combining the twin careers of author and doctor. It is said that Most poets have an acute sense of mortality but Abse's professional life as a doctor gives him a more precise and intimate perspective than most. Abse is seen to use the influence of Phillip Larkin within his poetry. 

The Whitsun Weddings

This poem is about the may bank holiday, we see how the person is travelling to London via train and on the way he witnesses new married couples embarking upon their honeymoons as husband and wife. Each stanza reflects on the where the train stops, the enjambment is where the train is moving and the end stop is it stopping : the train becomes a metaphor for movement.
In the 3rd and 4th stanzas we see how the persona had a negative judgement towards the family of the first bride and groom he encounters. The onomatopoeia of "whoops" and "skirls" describes the crowd of people cheering, the positive connotations of the adjectives used make it sound happy, simply through the words. The persona then goes onto a mockery tone of them all how they are "in parodies of fashion" and are all "posed irresolutely", the persona looks down onto them as they are simply common people.As the train moves on, the persona encounters more families where "confetti and advice were thrown" along with the girls being like a "happy funeral" this simile/oxymoron could symbolize the mourning of the unhappiness that marriage brings, the youth of the couple gone, independence, freedom all taken through the bond of love.
Towards the end of the poem we see the persona go into a philosophical meaning of experience of how the "arrow shower" represents the train moving them into the future, but the future is forcast is "rain". The pathetic fallacy can suggest the relief and refreshment of a new life together,and how rain in nature is the helping to grow a new life.

Larkin focuses on the individualism of life- being alone with on'e company seems to be more satisfying than with the ordeal of a family lifestyle. Reflecting on the individual company, the passion for jazz music acting as an isolated block from other. Loneliness pervades him, as many woman come and go into his life, with little or big significance but they merely fill the empty hole in his lonely heart? The speaker throughout the poems is usually Larkin? We've seen where it could be his mother, or Larkin interpreting a view point that he had witnessed. Also, the structure of the poems are reflected on the attitude of the poem, the tone generates the structure. If its rigid or flowing it reflects on his inner emotion to it, along with the rhyme scheme, Larkin adds the same effect.