When a married couple lays down to fall asleep, conversation usually occurs. The situation is never thought about, it just happens. Philip Larkin wrote a poem titled "Talking In Bed", in this poem he is writing about the very situation that was first mentioned. It does not seem like an event that would be written about, but Larkin uses this ordinary event to draw on many problems that this talking has caused between a husband and a wife.
             The first line starts out with the phrase "Talking in bed ought to be easiest", Larkin acknowledges that in the relaxed atmosphere that talking in bed would be easy, but he uses the word "ought", which implies that it is not that easy. The speaker in the poem states that "lying together goes back so far" this tells the reader that the speaker has been with this person for a long time. The word "lying" also means being dishonest, but if used in the commonplace the word laying would have been used to mean exactly that. Larkin ment it to mean that it is hard for the two people to communicate because their relationship is built on telling the other what they think they other wants to hear. In a common relationship hopefully the word would be truely truthful. In the third line the speaker says that talking together in bed is a sign of honesty. "An emblem of two people being honest", but for the two in this poem they feel that their lies are honest.
             Larkin continues to change this ordinary event in the second stanza. Time goes by for the speaker and the talking has turned into silence. They have run out of things to say because they started of not be honest. In a truthful relationship the talking would continue because they would have more to say, because the truth never runs out. In the fifth line "Outside, the wind's incomplete unrest builds and disperses clouds about the sky" is a compar
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