This paper exhibits Philip Larkin’s cynicism in human life. Philip Larkin is a movement poet and a man of realism. He emerged as a writer in 1950’s influenced by his friend King Seley Amis. Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is always marked as one of the major poets of 1950s. His poems shared the moods and conditions of post war England and it described the agony, pain and misery of postwar time. The post war era is significant for globalization and industrialization. People from all over the world migrated to London as it turned to be the centre of trade and commerce. London became overpopulated and clumsy due to overpopulation and industrialization.