Naturally the Foundation will Bear Your Expenses

The poem talks about the theme of war, particularly remembrance sunday, as the dislikeable persona who seems well educated, well travelled but quite snobbish is made late for his plane because of a remembrance ceremony. His views are not sensitive, disrespectful and contraversial, turning the reader against his character. 

Stanza 1:

• 'my comet' comet is a type of plane, giving the impression he travels a lot, 'my' showing his self centeredness. 
• 'one dark november day' hints at the the date being remembrance sunday. 
• 'would snatch me' suggests it is against his will, for work, and suggests a negative attitude.
• 'Berkeley' is a university in california. 
• 'not three weeks has heard perceiving chatto darkly through the mirror of the third' shows a distaste for acedemics, reinforcing the snobbishness as it talks about them stealing others words. 

Stanza 2:

• 'crowds, colourness and careworn' alliteration becomes snobbish and suggests the personas surroundings are bland and uninteresting to him. 
• 'had made my taxi late' shows he is selfcentered arround is problems and 'my' again shows his possessiveness and dislikeablity. 
• 'not yet till i was airborne did i recall the date' reinforces him as self centered, only thinking about himself and not what is going on arround him, he is clever but not very aware of real things. 
• 'the day when queen and minister' suggests he feels its just about showing status, and shows its 11/11 rememberence sunday.
• 'act' suggests he think they are not sincere in their acts it is just for show. 
• 'solemn sinister' links to it being a grave event but suggests that there is some kind of underlying evil to it, possibly because the army and authoritive figures are mourning the people they sent to die.
• 'wreath rubbish' is disrespectful and negative. 

Stanza 3:

• 'it used to make me throw up' shows his uncomfortable attitude. 
• 'nursury games' shows he feels superior to them, making us dislike him more. It also reinforces the idea they are not sincere, just playing with lives because they don't understand what they are doing. 
• 'but i out soar the thames shows he thinks he's better than everyone because he is academic.
• Finishes with name dropping 'morgan forster...' asserts his snobbish attitude and contrasts with Larkin's other poems because they usually end more profound however here it is just everyday details demonstrating the difference in the persona making us dislike him more.