Discuss larkins essay

When one reads the title Church Going, one is inclined to think the poem that follows is going to be deeply religious. However, Philip Larkin’s “Church Going” introduces an interesting play of words; when one goes on to read the poem, it becomes clear that it isn’t about going “to” church but the going “of” it.

Larkin uses various devices such as imagery, sentence structure, punctuation and alliteration to enhance the feeling of travel for the reader, and thus make the destination more effective. At the start of the poem, Larkin creates the image of an unnamed force with which the reader is transported from place to place.

Larkin’s verse is short on some of the most traditional subject and topics of poetry since there has been such a thing a poetry: women to whom he expresses love, religion and spiritual beliefs which center one’s morality and even those occasional opportunities to thumb one’s nose at the grunt work of life.

Here by Philip Larkin is a poem describing a journey, and this journey is enhanced with punctuation, sentence structure, stanza structure and vocabulary, all key contributors to the overall effect of travel. You are commenting using your WordPress.com account.