"Church Going" is arguably the most sublime "religious" poetry in English in the last half of the 20th century. I am not Anglo-American and I am Roman Catholic, but I find the poem, although pessimistic, very moving and beautiful.
@dannyboywhaa3146
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@bobolinho1
7 ай бұрын
Hitchens bought me here
@chantingginger8094
3 ай бұрын
Appreciated this 👍
@sruthidasan7666
3 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍👍
@truthntelling
5 ай бұрын
@iansmith9125 Who are you to demand "Write a better one then say meh." Since when does holding opinion come with the price of out-performing. Since when do critics have to compete with those they criticize? Then let's apply your mini-mindedness to you. Before you write a comment trashing someone's opinion, you "Write a better one" about the so-called poem. This forum is to comment on the video, not to slash throats of other commenters. "Meh" is a kind summation of Larkin's twisted nonsense. My word for it is "Barf". Now, do you insist I barf on you before I can say this? To oblige you would be deserved.
@iansmith9125
4 ай бұрын
I am saying that the comment is flippant & dismissive of a great piece of poetry. What do you mean by “twisted nonsense?”. You are, it seems as am I, a partial judge. If you don’t like the poetry, listen to something else. I will not stand by however, & let a beautiful verse & one of the most significant writers of the 20th century be damned with a shit espousal. Not even a word. The man was a genius & my injunction is: Have some ground from which to argue your point or fuck off 👍
@evolassunglasses4673
5 ай бұрын
England lives.
@truthntelling
5 ай бұрын
"Once I am sure there is nothing going on" there is no church. "Church" is the assembly of believers, not a building. The title should be Non-Church Going then he has reason to moan and groan in pessimism. Another boring bullish Brit.
@a.brekkan4965
16 күн бұрын
I dont find it pessimistic. I do however find it serious and honest. Are you by any chance Evangelical American?
@shannonhenson609
2 жыл бұрын
Meh.
@adrianprowse7968
Жыл бұрын
Read it again.
@USERNAMEfieldempty
Жыл бұрын
Why Meh?
@shannonhenson609
Жыл бұрын
@@USERNAMEfieldempty I didn't find the poem as compelling as they made it out to be. Just my opinion, of course.
@USERNAMEfieldempty
Жыл бұрын
@@shannonhenson609 Shannon, do you ever go into ordinary empty, village churches when you pass by them? This poem nails it perfectly. The hope. The disappointment. The Elsewhereness. The satisfied sense of intellectual superiority, mixed with the feeling of modern emptiness. The disdain and the yearning. The loss of something that you half want but completely despise. The place is so ''serious'' but not really serious at all. Larkin gets it just right.
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