Question

Read The Poem and answer the questions

First Sight
-Philip Larkin

Lambs that learn to walk in the snow
When their bleating clouds the air
Meet a vast unwelcome, know
Nothing but a sunless glare.
Newly stumbling to and fro
All they find, outside the fold,
Is a wretched width of cold.

As they wait beside the ewe,
Her fleeces wetly caked, there lies
Hidden round them, waiting too,
Earth's immeasurable surprise.
They could not grasp it if they knew,
What so soon will wake and grow
Utterly unlike the snow.

Q. “First Sight” - Why do you think the poet chose this as a title? Explain your answer in two or three sentences.

Answer 1

First Sight

- Philip Larkin

Justification of the title:

• The poem expresses the landscape as seen by newborn lambs, who have just started to walk in the snowy weather. They see a vast land before them. Thus the poem's title 'First Sight' is justified.

• In another way we can interpret the poet's view of the mentioned scene in the poem for the first time. That also justifies the title of the poem.