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1. Next Please - Philip Larkin

2. Introduction "Next, Please" appears in Philip Larkin's 1955 collection The Less Deceived. Bluntly pessimistic, the poem offers an extended metaphor for human beings' unrealistic hopes and dreams: our "bad habits of expectancy.“

3. Themes Hope, Expectation, and Disappointment The Certainty and Permanence of Death Philip Larkin's "Next, Please" criticizes the human tendency to build up false hopes rather than enjoying the here and now. The speaker accuses humanity of "bad habits of expectancy," of always looking toward the horizon for what's coming "Next."

4. Next Please

5. Next Please Yet still they leave us holding wretched stalks Of disappointment, for, though nothing balks Each big approach, leaning with brasswork prinked, Each rope distinct, Flagged, and the figurehead wit golden tits Arching our way, it never anchors; it's No sooner present than it turns to past. Right to the last

6. We think each one will heave to and unload All good into our lives, all we are owed For waiting so devoutly and so long. But we are wrong: Only one ship is seeking us, a black- Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back A huge and birdless silence. In her wake No waters breed or break.

7. Next Please We think each one will heave to and unload All good into our lives, all we are owed For waiting so devoutly and so long. But we are wrong: Only one ship is seeking us, a black- Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back A huge and birdless silence. In her wake No waters breed or break.

8. Thank You - Ms Pavithra Jain Department of English