The other side of that coin is that people also tend to learn from their parents mistakes and at least avoid some of the negative patterns that came before.
No one can be a perfect parent, but most parents try their best to give their kids a good childhood and then there are some who should have never had kids in the first place.
A bit of nuance is in order, else poems lile that one just feels too fucking childish for me to take seriously. It reeks of I’m 14 and this is deep.
Let’s not get too hot and bothered by sixteen lines of copypasta doggerel. As far as nuance goes, the entire point of the poem is to serve as “baby’s first nuance.” Its intended audience is indeed 14-year-olds (and others who share their solipsism) who think they are deep, and who resent their parents – as if those parents didn’t try, as if those parents weren’t ever children themselves. And Larkin, misanthropic shit that he was, mischievously suggests that perhaps those people should not have children themselves.
Anyway, it seemed appropriate to post in response to a shitpost about someone who is angry at being born without their consent.
The other side of that coin is that people also tend to learn from their parents mistakes and at least avoid some of the negative patterns that came before.
No one can be a perfect parent, but most parents try their best to give their kids a good childhood and then there are some who should have never had kids in the first place.
A bit of nuance is in order, else poems lile that one just feels too fucking childish for me to take seriously. It reeks of I’m 14 and this is deep.
Let’s not get too hot and bothered by sixteen lines of copypasta doggerel. As far as nuance goes, the entire point of the poem is to serve as “baby’s first nuance.” Its intended audience is indeed 14-year-olds (and others who share their solipsism) who think they are deep, and who resent their parents – as if those parents didn’t try, as if those parents weren’t ever children themselves. And Larkin, misanthropic shit that he was, mischievously suggests that perhaps those people should not have children themselves.
Anyway, it seemed appropriate to post in response to a shitpost about someone who is angry at being born without their consent.