Am Cleanly Kin - A Poem About a Child

Dockery seems to have been created by the speaker, rather than from any real knowledge. He might not have been happy about it. And why did he think adding meant increase? How do we know he thought? It's as if dockery now is not a real character in the poem. He is now become a cipher for that which larkin doesn't believe. So he needs to paint dockery in a certain way, con vinced. That sounds like someonewho lacks subtlety or doubt. We find this again in the last poem of the collection, which is called, i'm turning to it now, an arundal tomb. Arundal is a