Aubade Themes

No big surprise here—death is easily the most obvious theme in "Aubade." The speaker can't shake that gloomy feeling that with each passing minute, hour, and day he is hurtling closer and closer...

Sure, "Aubade" has lots to do with death. But there's other stuff going on too. Is it just us, or does it seem like maybe a fear of death isn't this speaker's only problem? It seems like this guy i...

"Aubade"'s speaker seems like kind of a loner. If you woke up at 4AM and couldn't go back to sleep, would you just stare into the abyss or would you do something—text, tweet, update your Facebook...

Death is scary. So it makes sense that fear comes up quite a bit in Larkin's "Aubade." What's worse, this isn't the kind of fear that goes away when you turn on the lights and see that what you tho...

Even though our speaker directly address religion only briefly in "Aubade," the entire poem is kind of a rejection of religion and religion's ideas about death. It seems pretty safe to say that the...