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"Home is so Sad": The sorrow in the conservative soul
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"Home is so Sad": The sorrow in the conservative soul

How Philip Larkin's 1958 poem describes the sense of loss that haunts the conservative worldview.

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Matthew Morgan
Jul 22, 2022
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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go...
~ Philip Larkin, “Home is so Sad”

[Read the poem here for context to this essay.]

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