All in all, Larkin was indeed a great poet.

Although all of his work can be put in a hundred page book, he managed to rise to a highly appreciated man of his time. He preferred loneliness to social life and his poems are sewn up with themes of disappointment in life, mortality, love, the pressure of modern society. As far as the love is concerned, he did not depict love as a very devoted or satisfying passion. None of his poems records the achievement of complete success in love; and even those, which come close to describing success, are in the end unsuccessful. The same kind of uncertainty exists in the poem An Arundel Tomb. Throughout, Larkin carefully weighs pros and cons in the sphere of love. On one hand, love is merely a theoretical possibility; on the other hand, it might yet succeed. The position of outsider characterises many Larkin's poems that deal with women such as the case in the poem Love Again.

Again we see that Larkins unromantic and non-sentimental attitude gives a unique quality to his love poems. He is realistic at heart and he wants to see things clearly and truthfully. Intentionally and deliberately, he does avoid deceptions and through his perceptions, he presents the facts as they actually exist. Even his love poems describe an utterly unromantic view of human life in the backdrop of the sexual act, which is generally believed to bring about fulfilment and sexual relief. In Larkins poems, the sexual act is altogether a deception and a sense of dissatisfaction and hopelessness seems to penetrate everything with a feeling of emptiness the speaker says that love can give meaning to other people's lives, but for him it never worked.