The title of this poem is derived from the expression ?To sow your wild oats?. It was culturally accepted by hands at the time, that before marriage, men would be allowed to indulge in legion(predicate) sexual relationships with mevery women. The reasoning behind this is that if a man is not open to sow his wild oats, he will become burning during his married years and begin to cheat on his wife. This storey is told by Larkin aged 40, when he is still unmarried, and in this poem, he looks back to is younger days when he was around 20 years old. The poem describes one of his relationships in which he failed miserably. 20 years on from this event, he still has photos from it, but not of the girl he had a relationship with, but of her prettier superstar.
This prettier friend is immediately described as ?A bosomy English rose?. This hints at how extremely beautiful she is and how Larkin considers her at the meridian of beauty. Larkin calls her ?beautiful? and that is what he defines her as in his mind. He besides remembers her very precisely even after 20 years, ?I believe/ I met beautiful twice? and the fact that he remembers her so precisely shows how strong an impression she made on him.
He also thinks that no one ever had any woman as beautiful as her, ?I uncertainness/ If ever one had like hers?. It is suggested that she knew she was superior (looks wise) to him, ? She was trying/ some(prenominal) times (so I thought) not to laugh?; this shows how she perhaps anchor it comical that Larkin was trying to charm her. But perhaps, Larkin is just existence paranoid here, and in fact she was just behaving normally.
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