Enigmatic coalescence of landscape and human emotion in Larkin’s A Girl In Winter

Abstract

Philip Larkin, in his novelA Girl in Winter, depicts human condition affected by nature and environment. In the novel, the protagonist, Katherine suffers due to the degradation of the natural phenomena in the world. She finds herself discriminated and ignored everywhere in the world in the manner environment is ignored. Katherine, a wartime refuge from unnamed European country reaches England and finds the whole nature in devastated condition by the Second World War. Being serious about nature and worried about its degradation, she finds human beings unaware of the problem which their actions may bring about soon. Larkin shows how the characters have become emotionally upset by the contemporary degraded landscape which was once perfectly normal. With the help of his characters in the novel, Larkin portrays his attempt of saving his soul,by means of saving nature and environment to create order in the ecosystem.