Mae Quotes Poet Philip Larkin, "They f*ck you up, your mum and dad..." (Ted Lasso)
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
Ted Lasso 3x11: Mom City
It feels like every character in Ted Lasso has something to contribute, a moment to shine.
"Man hands on misery to man,
It deepens like a coastal shelf."
Damn, that part goes hard
Mae might be my favorite character on the show. She was always a scene stealer for me and then when she delivered this poem, it really solidified her place in the pantheon of background characters.
I would so watch a Cheers-esque spinoff about her and the patrons in her pub.
@@karrihart1 10/10, would watch
This moment spun me around. Philip Larkin, out of nowhere. I hadn’t heard this since I was a student, and I’m retrospect I couldn’t imagine another character delivering it. Just a beautiful moment in an extraordinary show.
Just love Larkin’s poetry and this one trips so delightfully off her tongue.
Beat me to it! This is one of my favorite scenes from the entire show. What a beautiful poem, I had never heard it before.
To a greater extent than we all care to realise, that poem is 100% true. If you don't believe it, you are born by an immaculate conception.
Thanks for posting this with the correct attribution. Profound poem. ❤
Thank-you so much for posting this!
Thank you! I was looking for this specific scene. The poem is weirdly even more fitting to Beau is Afraid that I have just seen.😅
Gives me flashbacks to Higher English class. Only poem I really remember from Larkin. Probably because of the rude words.
@allymcleod87 Same here! I learned the poem in college and I was quickly able to point out what it was. It is burned in my brain from the shock of my professor saying profane language.
Thanks for posting this Tina - watched this episode last night and it brought a tear to my eye. Also reminded me that it's Whitsun Weddings time!
This is fantastic.
Mae is adorable ❤
“Ah fahk off!” - Logan Roy
"BOAR ON THE FLOOR!"
I still confuse about this poem. What’s the explanation for it?
That a lot of the issues people experience as individuals were handed down to them from their parents, and their parents parents, and so on and so forth. The misery of humanity ever deepening and layering from one generation to the next like sand deposits on a coastal shelf. The only way to not add to it is to “get out” (die) without having kids.
In essence it’s to explain away the faults of ourselves as the accumulation of the faults of our ancestors. If everyone is to blame for our issues, then nobody is. It’s a message about breaking the cycle. Ted worries as a father that he’s doing to his son what his father did to him and in doing so, adding to the cycle.
Ask your mum and dad.
For me personally Larkins poem is also empathetic to the challenges of being an adult! No matter how hard we try as parents our children will inherit both good and flawed elements from their parents, echoing back each generation through time - people generally just trying their best at life in sometimes very difficult circumstances - thats all we can do, try our best and have some empathy for others.
It's called 'This Be The Verse' by Philip Larkin. It's one of the most famous and best-loved 20th century English poems. It's even got its own Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Be_The_Verse
@@hatjodelkaI was looking for this comment, thank you❤
I stayed too long. Well, at least I didn't procreate.
No ex boyfriends f****d me up,