In this poem Larkin is exterior from what he sees and he is witnessing this as he is travelling on a train. He presents oxymorons in this poem such as "happy funeral" in order to enable the reader to have to think about the meaning behind it and explore the different interpretations (it could mean a wonderful end of an era).
Larkin projects the image of cheapness when he says he sees girls wearing "nylon gloves". This implies that these people are not elegant, not classy, and not elite as nylon is synthetic and fake and by him saying they're wearing "parodies of fashion" further instils this vision of a lower class. There is an element of unpleasantness as he's describing these people at the weddings he sees which lead me to believe that he is a snob looking down on these people and he's mocking them.
By describing the mothers as "loud and fat" makes us see Larkin as very straight forward and blatantly harsh, but makes the things he says about the fathers having "broad belts under their suits and seamy foreheads" slightly harder to read into. This to me indicates a hint of sexism.
The landscape he describes when travelling through the countryside are much industrialised: "approached with achres of dismantled cars", which indicates the fact that these weddings are taking place where you definitely wouldn't want to be.
The themes present in this poem are; nature/landscapes, society and a journey. In my opinion, the journey is the most important theme of this poem and is the most potent in terms of be able to interpret the poem. It helps if you imagine what h's describing and try to picture it yourself and then think of how you would feel about it.
The ending represent the cycles of nature and also provides hope but can also be seen as things coming to an end as the journey as to end at some point.
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