A Random Blend: The Self in Philip Larkin's Poems "Ambulances" and "The Building"

被引：1

作者：

Pickering, Neil ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Te Pokapu Matatika Koiora, Ctr Bioeth, Div Hlth Sci, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand

来源：

JOURNAL OF BIOETHICAL INQUIRY | 2014年 / 11卷 / 02期

关键词：

Philip Larkin; The self; Human individuality; Ambulances; Hospitals;

D O I：

10.1007/s11673-014-9521-8

中图分类号：

B82 [伦理学（道德学）];

学科分类号：

摘要：

In two of his great poems, "Ambulances" and "The Building," Philip Larkin considers a deep fear about human individuality. The fear is that the human self is contingent and disjunctive, lacking any integrity or unity. The arrival of an ambulance on an urban curb and a visit to the hospital are the occasion of reflection on this form of human fragility. But more significant, the ambulance and the hospital are imagined as contexts in which the contingency of the human individual is brought out and laid before us.

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