"Toads" by Philip Larkin- Tone

The tone of this poem is uninspired and a little hopeless. The speaker is passionate about this subject, but lacks the power to voice his opinions publicly. This is apparent when he says that he would like to shout out his feeling of pensions, but he is not courageous enough. When he comments that the system "will never allow me to blarney My way", this instills a hopelessness into the poem. The reader understands that not only is he generally unhappy about his life, but he feels he can not get out it. He wants, like any other man in his situation, to stop and take it easy, like he see's that the well payed actors and bankers that seem to have it all, have. But, even though he wants this life, and dreams about it, he knows that it will not happen. This is why this man is uninspired. He does nothing to change his situation.