Loss Of Articulation In Philip Larkin's Talking In Bed

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Loss of Articulation Lying in bed at night can be lonesome, especially when thoughts run wild. A cure for this loneliness is often times another mind to run alongside in equal craziness. In Philip Larkin's poem, "Talking in Bed," he confronts the idea that two people will eventually run out of anything to say when at first they had an abundance. His use of vivid imagery and symbolism give the reader a unique, almost dreamlike, picture that conveys the way night feels, looks, and sounds like to him. Larkin instills the reader with images and sounds of midnight, making them see what he feels. To create this imagery he describes the outside world with "dark towers" that "heap up on the horizon." This gives the poem a desolate and brooding

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