Stone Church Damaged By A Bomb Poem

The character fails to reveal his respect as he “utters God’s name in church unconsciously, and he is just as unconscious when he takes off his cycle-clips to illustrate his respect, since he does not wear a hat” (Rácz). The bicyclist uttering God’s name in a disgraceful way reveals his lack of knowledge for the religious culture. Along with his language, his gesture of taking of his cycle-clips like it is a hat is almost disrespectful and mocking the religious decorum. As the poem progresses, Larkin utilizes the bicyclist to reveal his thoughts, almost in a mocking tone, that: “When churches fall completely out of us / What we shall turn them into… Shall we avoid them as unlucky places?” (Larkin, Collected Poems 58). Larkin chooses to

He states the opposing religions only causes war against each other. Larkin creates an image of: “A prayer killed into stone / Among the always-dying trees” (Larkin, Collected Poems 164). Larkin reveals his image of people in a church praying, and suddenly a bomb drops to destroy the church. The image explains the situation in current day life with wars over religion. Larkin reveals, “Suffering does not receive a Christian interpretation… since he does not believe it leads to redemption” (Rácz). He states that people will cover the situations with failed attempts of positivity with religion. Throughout Larkin's poems: “The speakers of such poems [who turn to God] are searching for their own place in a world deserted by God, and are trying to preserve what is left of human dignity” (Rácz). The present day world deserts God, and the very few who remain to worship him fill themselves with false happiness. Larkin concludes the poem with the question: “Though none, O none sees what patterns it is making?” (Larkin, Collected Poems 164). Everyone is oblivious to the pattern of religious fighting. As these churches are being destroyed they are focusing more on the building itself rather than the God. The religious people focus on “[t]he building, we not, not the God it stands for” (Mackinnon). The wars and fights over religion causes the followers to lose sense of the pattern and focus on other aspects rather than their religion. Larkin, although he does not believe in religion, states the people in power of the organizations cause the fracases on