Naturally the Founations will Bear Your Expenses by Philip Larkin

Naturally the Founations will Bear Your Expenses by Philip Larkin.
The poem is based on remembrance day where Larkin expresses his dislike towards the norms and traditions of this day, however he fully respects the soliders who fought in the war.
                                            'One dark November day'
Larkin uses the word 'dark' when talking about remembrance day implies his opinion towards this particular day. His attitude is negative and dismissive. The poet later describes the 'crowds' as 'colourless and careworn' which portrays the individuals as bland dreary. It also suggests how the geniune care for the soliders has been lost, remembrance day is only a tradition which is based on habit.  'The day when Queen and Minister and Band of Guards and all still act their solemn-sinister wreath-rubbish in Whitehall', suggests the authority, and the individuals with a higher status, pay their respects as a fake performance, just to follow their duties.A sense irony is portrayed in that the Queen sympathises with these soldiers, however she was the one that sent the men to their death.
                                'It used to make me throw up'
Larkin expresses his strong opinion by explaining how this day used to make him 'throw up' which is a hyperbolic statement, used to show how the event is sickening to the poet. Larkin thinks that society is child-like and fake as they play 'mawkish nursery games' reinforcing the idea that people copy each other and have to follow the same traditions.  'O when will England grow up' suggests how Larkin is annoyed with people for reliving the past, we should all get on with our own lives.