Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem "Toads".
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Toads' is one of Philip Larkin's most famous poems. ... In summary, 'Toads' is a cry of frustration that sees Larkin grumbling about having to devote his entire day to work, just so he could have an evening (as he put it in the 1982 South Bank Show special about him).
Answer:
Larkin conveys his negative feelings towards work and the working world.
Larkin ends up concluding that work is probably something he is well-suited to, and he wouldn’t want to be one of those people who live without it. For he, too, is ‘toad-like’.
Explanation:
‘Toads’ is a cry of frustration that finds Larkin grumbling about having to devote his entire day to work, just so he could have an evening (as he put it in the 1982 South Bank Show special about him). He has to give up ‘six days of his week to the toad work, which seems ‘out of proportion’ for what he gets in return.
Larkin wrote ‘Toads’ in 1954,