The inability to communicate and the desire to relive the past are recurring themes throughout literature. However, Philip Larkin, whose poetry is often associated with the mundane and the marginalized, transcends these themes by allowing his poetry to become more than just fragments of life. Her poems "Talking in Bed" and "High Windows" examine a couple's seemingly ordinary experiences of silence and longing to relive the past through the lens of isolation and questioning cultural values. In his poems “Talking in Bed” and “High Windows” Larkin uses simplistic language to convey themes of isolation and questioning the values ​​of cultural norms. In her poem “Talking in Bed,” Larkin uses simplistic language to reveal themes of isolation and question the values ​​of cultural norms, particularly in the evolution of romantic relationships. Larkin begins with the speaker lying in bed, with his partner, reflecting on the expectations of their relationship. He reflects on how their physical closeness should give way to an emotional connection, or “talking,” which is not the case. “Talking in bed should be the simplest thing, / Being together goes back to ancient times, / An emblem of two honest people.” (1-3). In his opening stanza, Larkin establishes a feeling of isolation from the speaker and the person he shares the bed with. By establishing this separation between the two, Larkin calls into question their level of intimacy, the type of relationship this couple is engaged in. Like Bahaa-Eddin M. Mazid, PhD. points out in “‘this unique distance from isolation’: a stylistic analysis of Larkin’s “Talking in Bed,” the couple’s physical sharing of the bed indicates physical intimacy while their inability to communicate orally suggests a lack of emotion. ..... At the center of the image of the card, there is also isolation, as limited to an observer, free to relive his own cultural battles but far from new generational expressions. In his poems “Talking in Bed” and “High Windows” Phillip Larkin is able to use simplistic language to convey the themes of isolation and questioning the values ​​of cultural norms. In “Talking in Bed” Larkin uses a perceived common social experience and feelings of isolation to convey a deeper social commentary on the evolution of relationships. Furthermore, in “High Windows,” Larkin's choice of explicit words and tone not only invokes themes of isolation, but draws attention to the cultural values ​​of sex and religion. Although his poems seem to address mundane life experiences, his singular vision helps convey themes of isolation and questioning of cultural values ​​that transcend his poems into universal relatability..