Home vs House

home/ house - a place where one lives; a residence, the physical structure within which one lives, a dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household. A house and a home are the same or are they? To me a house is just a structure that is built to occupy people  and a home is your own its yours and it holds all of your life and memories in it along with all of your belongings. I feel as if the Author Philip Larkin of the poem Home is So Sad has the same impression of a home as i do. A home is suppose to be lived in by a family and given a fair chance to see some memories. Thats what this poems is about to me. It only has two quatrains and in the first one Larkin talks about why the house is sad. The diction he uses is unforgettable, "shaped to the comfort of the last to go" to me this shows that the once known as home is just now a house its family abounded it and went on its way leaving the home in shambles and taking its personality and leaving it as a house thats why its sad.He also uses the phrase "it withers so" for something to wither it must lose force or vitality which means its lost its sentimental value. The second quatrain focuses on the objects in the home the words  "joyous shot" are used to let the readers know that the home is expectant of joy like having a family, seeing a marriage blossom, watching kids be raised the whole nine yards of a happy life happens inside your home. The poem also states that you can see how the home use to be just by looking at the "pictures", "cutlery", and even the music in the piano stool, we are able to envision what this home may look like just by thinking of the objects Larkin is telling us about. Although these objects are highly important he has saved the most significant object for last "That vase."it holds so much sentimental value and is symbolic to the homes death, life it self has been stolen from the home, so as it remands no longer a home but simply just a house. I personally love this poem it may be short but its so creative and the wording is absolutely phenomenal. And like i said before a house is just a structure nothing more nothing less, where as a home is your very own. Larkin uses personification in this poem so well, he does this to emphasize the significance of and differences between a house and a home.

Home is so Sad
by Philip Larkin
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped to the comfort of the last to go As if to win them back. Instead, bereft Of anyone to please, it withers so, Having no heart to put aside the theft And turn again to what it started as, A joyous shot at how things ought to be, Long fallen wide. You can see how it was: Look at the pictures and the cutlery. The music in the piano stool. That vase.