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“A Study of the Comparative Elements in the Poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes: Reality and Myth.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 38.3 (2012): 19-37. Larkin's poems often start from a chance of casual observation and end a universal statement. But he didn't show any individual didacticism or satire in the poems. And he often expresses pessimism depicting the image of passing time and solitude in old age, and the only end of age, death. This mood is deprived from Larkin's realistic look in the world, not through distorted lenses. That is, his major concern' s truth and reality in life, and he consistently wrote them in his poetry. Hughes, on the other hand, is essentially a poet of animal and nature, and imagination is a chief characteristic of his poetry. In his work, beneath the surface violence of the plot, there lies a deep mythic plan. He makes much account of powers of symbol and myth. Like this, for him, myth is part of the essence of his poetry. Larkin and Hughes's works are contemporary records of events in some ways. However, despite the fact that they lived in for the same period and that they lived in the same country with similar cultures, they got so many different things in their poetry, such as contents, styles, and techniques, etc. This paper presents these comparative elements in the poetry of these poets. (Youngdong University)