Here by Philip Larkin

This poem appears to me to be about the potential of things if you leave them alone. Larkin describes things that are natural in an attractive way such as ' the piled gold clouds' and the 'shining gull marked mud' however unnatural things he describes in a way which implies that he is almost disgusted by them such as; 'within a terminate and fishy smelling pastoral of ships up streets'. This implies that he is horrified by the way that man has treated the natural world and changed it for his own benefit.
     Towards the end of the poem Larkin describes things that have been left alone 'leaves unnoticed thicken' and 'neglected waters quicken' implying that when things are left untouched by man they flourish and grow and this is being stopped by industrialisation and urbanisation.