One of my earlier attempts at literary criticism. Looking at the poetic structure of feeling in Philip Larkin's works.

1. Pathological Enquiry in the state of
poems:
Philip larkin’s Poetry
Reference for facts:
http://www.echeat.com/essay.php?t=29562
Pessimism is the dialectical brotherhood of hedonism; hedonist
being the state of an ebullient emperor.
Depressed didactics cannot be authenticated as pragmatism.
Pragmatism is a state of enquiry and acceptance of immanent
reality as a truth at least in the candle light sense. It does not
involve a bemoaning ceremonial poetry.
Fear of death or any other being and entity is a precursor to a
fascist genre of affairs. Heidegger and his ontological enquiries
landed him in the premises of National Socialism (Nazism).
Heidegger attempted to aggregate all the dilapidated pieces of
an imperial past and to make it a formidable system of
philosophy against the rising rationality of modernity.
Heidegger denounced all rational and empirical investigations
into the dialectics and divergence in the history of being. This
methodology of hiding your graveyards by whitewashing was
made popular by successors from French philosophy. And thus
born is the post-modern state of ontology.
So fear and death in the discourse are the brainchild of a
diseased mind which is the product of a fragmented national
consciousness.
This is indeed a post – modern state. And this is the reason for
the popularity of Larkin’s poems. England itself in the post war
period was ailing with its imperial psychosis.
‘It is better to die rather than giving away the crown’

2. This is the motto of every ailing dynasty / monarchy.
This suicidal tendency is a stream of consciousness in post-World
war Europe. So Larkin is the elegy to the decline of British
imperial mindset. As it has lost its economic base, it reverberates
through the psycho-sphere of nationhood through poetic
imagery.
It will show all the tendencies of negating class consciousness
and will be against the promises of Romanism and the so called
excess of it.
The sexual repression of Larkin is objectified in various forms in
Larkin’s poems. Either it is explicitly narrated with a sense of
awfulness or with a detached asexuality. This is a state of
pathological mind. When its desire is excess it will not be
satisfied. Though Larkin had many sexual affairs he was never
satisfied. It is not because of being denied, but of the pathological
state of an imperial mindset which cannot be satisfied at all.
This is similar to the exhibitionism of a prostitute. Its happiness
lies in consuming it, rather than creating a new life or a new
consciousness.
So Larkin fits into the category of his great predecessor from
Nazis consciousness in all the presets of racism and historicisms.
So Larkin’s poems continue to bring tears to the graves of
platonic minds and effigies of its racist past.