Larkin - Religion context
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- Created on: 19-01-18 19:18
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- Larkin - Religion A05
- Ostensibly dismissive, even derisive
- ''An Anglican agnostic''
- Bought a Bible later in life and read it daily - ''It's absolutely bloody amazing to think that anyone ever believed any of that. Really, it's absolute balls. Beautiful, of course, But balls.''
- Still bought an expensive Bible = ambiguous??
- Although religion was 'beautiful' but had no power to alter his terror of death (e.g. Aubade)
- 1954 - 'Church Going'
- ''Bored, uninformed'' by religion and could never give his experiences of the numinous a developed framework
- Church was an embodiment of tradition and community
- Didn't attend Church or profess any religious faith
- Despised marriage and offspring from family - ''This Be the Verse''
- Feared death and inevitable end
- Wanted the comfort of an afterlife
- Maeve Brennan, (devout Catholic) managed to make Larkin reflect on religion but ended on sarcasm
- Obeyed father's injunction to ''never believe in God''
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