The weddings made
Each station we stopped at: sun destroys
The interest of what's happening in the shade,
And down the long cool platforms whoops and skirls
I took for porter larking with the mails
And went on reading. Once we started, though,
We passed them, grinning and pomaded, girls
In parodies of fashion, heels and veils,
All posed irresolutely, watching us go,
As if out on the end of an event
Waving goodbye
To something that survived it. Struck, I leant
More promptly out next time, more curiously,
And saw it all again in different terms:
The fathers with broad belts under their suits
And seamy foreheads; mothers loud and fat;
This indicates growing interest. At this point it is worth noting Larkin’s view of poetry of which, he claimed, he aimed to achieve results that “offered something nothing else could, something more than reading, watching television or going out with some girl … compulsive contact between reader and writer.” 
 This stanza, however, seems to do the opposite. Larkin’s curiosity is expressed in detached observation, a distance that led him to a reductive process that presents people as stereotypes and parodies. 
 Foucault  wrote of Larkin’s writing that it “functions as a procedure of objectification and subjection”  As can be seen in this stanza, people blend together as undifferentiated stereotypes.
The Whitsun Wedding