critical analysis of mr bleaney

 

‘’Mr. Bleaney’’

critical analysis of mr bleaney 

'Mr. Bleaney' was finished by Philip Larkin in May 1955, and it was published nine years later in his third major collection of poems, 'The Whitsun Weddings.'

Larkin uses a fictional persona to describe his sentiments about his life's inadequacies throughout the poem 'Mr Bleaney.'

The poem is a monologue that highlights Mr. Bleaney's personality. The description also reveals the speaker's own personality.

The poem "Mr. Bleaney" depicts a fictional person who lives in an underdeveloped leased room. Some of Mr. Bleaney's habits are mentioned in the poem. For example, he preferred sauce to gravy, he used to spend his summer holidays in Frinton with his relatives, and he used to spend Christmas in Stoke with his sister. But the speaker does not know whether Mr. Bleaney was aware of the fact that the nature of a man is judged by his habits and living.

Frinton folk
Who … in Stoke.

Mr. Bleaney is an oddball with little money, no literary taste, and no goal in life. As the poet says:

‘Mr Bleaney took
My...’

It's also a poetry on reality. Larkin has depicted the everyday existence of a common man. Mr. Bleaney is a tattered post-war veteran who has forgotten the value of time. The new character that moves into the same room as Mr. Bleaney immediately learns about Mr. Bleaney's life. He notices that the room is filthy and that tussocks of grass can be seen through the window; he also notices that there is no space for books. Larkin has painted a picture of a ragged person's life and its meaninglessness.

’ Flowered curtains, … Tussocky, littered. ‘

Mr. Bleaney's recurring themes include loneliness and alienation. It's about modern man's miserable situation of becoming estranged and alienated from society and its pleasures. Due to financial constraints, Mr. Bleaney lives in severe poverty. The poet mocks modern civilization, which is on the verge of extinction. It is chaotic, and there is little prospect for the common man's life to improve.

"Mr. Bleaney" is a poem with autobiographical aspects. Mr. Bleaney is an ordinary man who has become indifferent as a result of his poor living conditions. He lives in a small, unkempt room with everything drab and unattractive, such as an upright chair, a sixty-watt lamp, and a jabbering radio set. All of these articles accurately depict the life of an ordinary guy in the 1950s.

Bed, upright chair, … or bags —

In "Mr. Bleaney," irony abounds; Mr. Bleaney's chamber was filthy, and the view from his window was filthy as well. The poet then sits on the same bed as Mr. Bleaney and snuffs his cigarettes on the same saucer. The poet then uses the irony of a "jabbering radio-set" to drown out the noise with cotton. The poem is an ironically portrays of Mr. Bleaney but, at the same time, the poet portrays himself in an ironical manner.

‘’ ‘I’ll take it.’ So … on to buy.’’

 

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