Going - Philip Larkin
- Created by: H4f5ah
- Created on: 21-12-21 12:13
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- Going
- "evening"
- metaphor for death
- Peripheral
- word death is never used directly
- absence of light
- light often symbolises God
- evening are something inevitable, a day always has an evening
- Subtly hinting at death, how it occurs everyday and is a cycle unbroken
- "where has the tree gone"
- Trees often symbolise the cyclical nature of life
- narrator is questioning its disappearance
- Could mimic how people often question God's existence when death approaches
- narrator is questioning its disappearance
- Mocking tone
- Mocking those who believe in God
- Trees often symbolise the cyclical nature of life
- "It brings no comfort"
- God brings no "comfort" to the narrator in the inevitability of death
- "evening"
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