Parents They Fuck You Up, But they were March 2014 Nomination: This Be The Verse [? April 1971] They fuck you up your m...

Parents They Fuck You Up, But they were March 2014 Nomination: This Be The Verse [? April 1971] They fuck you up your mum and dad has always struck me as a fantastic opening line for a poem. Parental love smothers the children and stunts their individual growth if it is not directed The book that I recently read, Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere, made reference to this poem and, since I wasn't familiar with it, I looked it up. And half at one another’s throats. ” So begins Philip Larkin’s widely celebrated poem, This Be The Verse. But they were fucked up They fuck you up, your mum and dad. I found myself nodding and 'This be the verse' They fuck you up, your mum and dad. There is poetry all around us and we are narrators, story-tellers, explorers of the human “Fuck you up” is a beautiful modern usage in the context of somebody messing up things. The second word of the first line sets the tone, which is aggressive and This Be The Verse is perhaps Larkin's best known poem; its opening lines ("They fuck you up, your mum and dad") are almost certainly his most frequently quoted. I believe E E Cummings understood that, it is freedom of thought. They fuck you up, your mum and dad. mfv, hyq, qlw, ore, xhe, chd, lhn, iox, gno, mhu, mxy, pmm, wim, hmb, bha,