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Church GoingPhillip Larkin’s “Church Going,” composed in 1954, analyzes the conflict between spirituality and organized religion. The persona enters an empty church, walks around, and then donates a...
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Church GoingPhilip Larkin's poem "Church Going" begins with a deeply ambivalent view of religion. The titles sets up the expectation that this will be a narrative about one or more people attending a church...
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Church GoingThe speaker of Philip Larkin's poem "Church Going" is stopping at a church during a bicycle ride. He looks in to make "sure there's nothing going on" before "stepping inside". The speaker then...
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Church GoingThe last stanza of Church Going by Philip Larkin, as is often true with his poetry, expresses a sort of turn or change in attitude. At the beginning of the poem, we encounter a cynical...
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Church GoingThe central idea of "Church Going" by Philip Larkin is that while religion is now no more than an antiquated superstition, there will always be a need for some people to search for answers in...
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Church GoingPhilip Larkin wrote the "Church Going" in 1954, and it was published in 1955 (Greenblatt). The poem touches on Larkin's predominantly atheist views and his general confusion about Christianity and...
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Church Going'Here endeth' was the common ending for a Bible reading in church. In the poem "Church Going" by Philip Larkin, the speaker walks to the front of the church, examining all of the items:"Mounting...
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Church GoingTwo important particular themes are the decline of organized religion and the void left by its disappearance. The two general themes I found are ritual and place. The speaker is evidently agnostic...
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Church GoingThis famous poem is so rich in terms of the title that Larkin has given it and the number of possible interpretations and how those interpretations relate to the theme and message of the poem....
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Church GoingI am not sure what you mean by introduction, whether you want a general introduction or a literary introduction. Generally, this poem by Philip Larkin provides the interior monologue of a man who...
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Church GoingThe first stanza introduces the narrator, apparently a cyclist, stopping to explore a deserted church. He has to make sure "there's nothing going on" before he is willing to go in; his visit is not...
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Church GoingThe quote that is referred to in your question is one that is taken from the first stanza of the poem and serves to describe the church that the speaker has just entered. Its importance lies in...
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Church GoingThree notable elements in "Church Going" could be considered to include the rhyme scheme, the careful selection of vocabulary to create word-pictures in the mind of the reader, and the conscious...
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Church GoingA continuation of the above: The speaker comes back to churches despite everything because for a long time they held marriage, birth and death together which are now found only in separation as...
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Church GoingA continuation of the above: The speaker comes back to churches despite everything because for a long time they held marriage, birth and death together which are now found only in separation...
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Church GoingIn "Church Going" by Philip Larkin, a narrator is visiting an open but empty small country church. It is obviously an Aglican church somewhere in rural England. The narrator reveals that he is in...
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Church GoingPhilip Larkin, a contemporary poet, wrote ‘Church Going’ in the early 1950’s, after World War II, when the shattering influence of war was at its peak and there were constant social changes....
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Church GoingThe reference you have given is the first line of the last stanza, and refers to the importance of the church, both to Larkin and to society at large. Having visited a church and being surprised at...
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Church GoingCentral to understanding this poem is appreciating the deep irony that is evident in the reaction of the speaker to the theme he is trying to address. At surface level, at least, he is cynical and...
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Church GoingThis is an incredibly important poem from the works of Philip Larkin, the famous English poet. One of his hobbies was visiting old churches in the countryside of Britain of which there are many,...
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Church GoingLarkin refers to the church that he has visited in the final stanza of this poem as a "serious house" because he, although he is an atheist, recognises the solemnity of the church and its serious...