An Analysis of the BuildingLarkin put "The Building" in the middle of his collection for a reason, it is a pillar that supports the rest of the collection with its long lines and many verses . , and for this reason, is perhaps a little clearer than some of his other poems in the ideas and points of view expressed therein. Of course, being a Larkin poem, there is the obligatory underlay that so many people miss, but in "The Building" it is easier to discern and understand. The title of the poem, “The Building” already alludes to the main theme. of the poem. The word "building" is a very vague term and in its vagueness we can guess the author's fear of this building, he cannot specify that it is a hospital as if not saying the word would make it disappear. At the same time, in this poem, Larkin presents the hospital as the real world, everything around it is fake, so the word "building" contrasts with his view of what it really is. The poem begins in this indistinct way and moves towards a much more precise reality: death. The first thing we discover about the building is the way it dominates the author's gaze, of all the buildings he can see, it is the tallest, it 'appears' for miles." Although he doesn't want to know what it is, it dominates his view and his destiny: all men and women end up in the hospital before they die, and there is still this feeling of. fear of Larkin's death. He sees that the hospital is real life, everything else is false, you delude yourself all your life about death, pretending that it doesn't exist yet. at the hospital, you finally have to face the truth He names the places he wishes it were: a hotel, an airport lounge, a bus, but he can't...... au. middle of paper... die not yet, maybe not here, but at the end, and somewhere like that. As in most of his poems, he begins by being afraid of something, in this case death, but he later realizes that it is in fact just an inevitable part of life. And he also understands that if people weren't so afraid of death, life would be less valued, as he implies in the last part of the poem: "...a struggle to transcend the idea of ​​dying, for unless his powers grow In cathedrals, nothing contravenes...” The poem ends ominously with “With wasteful, weak, and propitiatory flowers.” The structure of the poem with nine lines of six lines totals 63, but this last odd line makes it more regular, it makes it 64 which suggests 8x8, so the last line may seem a little irregular and strange, but it also completes the poem (and also the rhyme scheme).