View Philip Larkin Church Going Gif. Matting, seats, and stone, and little books. It clearly reveals the social context church going is a monologue in which the speaker frankly appears as an agnostic if not as a downright atheist.

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The title itself is puzzling. It consists of 7 stanzas, each 9 lines in length.the meter is a relaxed iambic pentameter. In contrast, there are nonbelievers.

That it fails in some spots, however, makes it especially ripe for analysis, and becomes.

It appeared in his second full collection of poetry, the less deceived (1955). Many readers are encouraged to read 'church going' as an example of larkin's ambivalent relationship with the. There is a debate internal to the poem in that, as much larkin sees the necessity of church going, and wonders what the world will be like when the churches have been abandoned, when belief itself. Go to the listen again page.