Toads Revisited

"should" -> might not -> emphasises his expectations

"suit" -> could mean two things => paradox
1) it isn't hi scene.
2) suit and tie - related to work -> uniform

"palsied old step-takers" -> old decreed people.

"Hare-eyed clerks with the jitters" - "clerks" => junior bankers - "hare-eyed" => nervous - shaking.

"blurred playground noises" -> children (in the park).

"waxed-fleshed out patients still vague from accidents" -> the park is also where people in recovery go to.

"And characters in long coats deep in the litter basket" -> homeless people scavenge in the park?

"stupid or weak" -> summary of all the types of people in the park.

"Think of being them!" -> Larkin is mortified by even the thought -> time would go by with nothing to do -> monotonous

"Hearing the hours chime" -> monotonous - got nothing else to do but to "hear" time go past.

Repetition of "Think of being them" -> emphasises his point ^.

Stanza 7 - Larkin would have time to think about all of his failures and regrets in his life -> isolation - he fears he wouldn't have anyone to talk to

Stanza 7 - shows how work keeps him socialising and interacting with other people -> a safety net

"Give me your arm, old toad" -> work has become his friend.

"Help me down Cemetery Road" -> last line shows that death is the overall outcome of life -> inevitable -> Larkin would rather work until he died than be a work-dodger.