By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘Cut Grass’ is one of the shortest famous poems by Philip Larkin (1922-85). Completed in June 1971, the poem was published in Larkin’s last volume of poems, High Windows, in 1974. It’s a short lyric about newly cut grass, hovering between celebration and mourning. In this post, we discuss the poem and offer a brief analysis of its language and themes.