AQA (B): Paper 1 Aspects of comedy
The idea of a comic poem featuring a woman in a swimsuit and bearing the name of a seaside town might, for contemporary readers, summon up thoughts of seaside postcards by Donald McGill. These sold in their millions between the 1930s and the 1960s and made liberal use of bawdy situations, comic stereotypes and double entendres. Larkin’s contribution to the seaside humour genre, however, is something altogether more savage.
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