Blog #4: Church Going

       Philip Larkin's "Church Going" is a poem which focuses on religion. The speaker seems to be bored when it comes to going to church. The author portrays this boredom through his choice of adjectives when the speaker is describing what he sees and what he thinks the church will come to. A lot of church goers would describe a church with magnificent adjectives since that location is where they practice their faith. The way the speaker describes church is almost like a monotonous routine, where you do all of the tasks by memory like a robot but you do not actually feel anything. Words such as "another", "awkward", "shapeless", "antique", "bored", "uninformed", "dispersed", "obsolete" and "dead". All of the exemplary words along with some key phrases in the poem show the reader that the speaker's stance when it comes to the topic of church is that they will soon become obsolete.