No Country for Old Men Chapter 10-13 and "This be the Verse"

Summary and Analysis:
 -The ending chapters are mostly Bell talking as he comes to retire.
- He tries hard to find Chigurh but he can't-->he is like a "ghost"
  --"When you encounter things in the world, the evidence for certain things, you realize that yo have not come upon something that you may very well not be equal to and I think that this is one of them things."pg. 299
-"The other thing is the old people, and I keep comin back to them. They look at me it's always a question. years back I don't remember that. I don't remember it when I was sheiff back in the fifties. You see em and they dont even look confused. They just look crazy. That bothers me. Its like they woke up and don't know how they got where they're at. Well, in a manner of speakin they don't" pg. 304 ****
 -- I think this quote is a good summary of the novel and ties in, and explains, the title significantly. It describes the fate of the world and how things have changed over generations and leaves the reader at a good point of wonder and thought.
-At then end when Bell is talking about his father in his dream, "he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever i got there he would be there.", the reader can almost take the symbolism to mean that at death, one reaches knowledge and peace, that a death, one leave the world and its degrading chaos and find the fire and warmth, finds the knowledge and good will

In Phillip Larkin's, "This be the Verse", the same kind of idea is being presented that Bell presents. The speaker is cynical and blunt and presents the idea that society is getting worse and worse.