The Prism of Colour in Philip Larkin’s Poetry

Philip Larkin animates the imagery that he creates with various colours and fine hues. In this paper, Larkin‟s colour spectrum is inspected to uncover how its elements are manipulated along Larkin‟s Oeuvre from the early juvenilia to the later and posthumous poems. The study focuses on the poems in which Larkin seems to make colours dynamic and vital agents of awareness, candour, abstruseness, frolicsomeness, and wishful thinking among many other manifestations. An introduction of an iridescent colour range or a commentary on an opalescent background is set to demystify or even mystify as fit so that the questions of existence, knowledge, youth, old age, life, and death are effortlessly and most vividly argued.