Philip Larkin's Ignorance

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“Ignorance” by Philip Larkin is a poem, believe it or not, about ignorance. Throughout the poem the idea that people are not truly aware of the actions of others around them, nor how life is affecting them truly is important. Larkin uses this idea to his advantage to express the idea that people in the world do not understand why they are doing what they are doing along with the idea that people will live to the pleasing of others and then die.
“Ignorance” connects to my novel based on the relation of the main collective theme of ignorance. The ideas that Larkin creates relates based toward the children in “All the Light We Cannot See” because of the ignorance they face to the war around them, along with the lack of knowledge that Werner has

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