End-stopped+Lines

**---END-STOPPED LINES---**
These are lines that contain a grammatical break (comma, full stop, semi-colon, etc) at the end of a line. This causes a pause in meaning but also shows natural pauses. The sense does not continue in the following lines.

Examples:

" The covers pleased her, One bleached from lying in a sunny place, One marked in circles by a vase of water,"

The previous example from __Love Songs In Age__, show that there is a simple and calm rhythm set by the punctuation. There is a natural flow of the meaning and words. In this poem, end-stopped lines are mostly used in the first verse to set a passive setting. Further on, there is more enjambment rather than end-stopped lines in order to speed up the rhythm and thus affect the meaning and tone of the words.

"I thought of London spread out in the sun, Its postal districts paked like squares of wheat:"

This example from __Whitsun Weddings__ once again shows the prescence of end-stopped lines in Philip Larkin's work. If each line was read separately the meaning would remain the same, whereas if there were no punctuation marks and the meaning continued in the next line then it would not be as easily understood. The fact that there is a comma and colon changes the meaning and tone of the phrase. These lines are meant to be calm. Most of the lines in __The Whitsun Weddings__ are not end-stopped since most of them contain lists of description and Larkin uses to create a sardonic mood.