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This Be The Verse
Poem by Philip Larkin
This Be The Verse
This Be the Verse is a poem by the English poet Philip Larkin. It was first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist and later included in Larkin’s 1974 collection High Windows. The poem is one of Larkin’s most widely known works and remains notable for its dark humour, directness, and taboo-breaking language.
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