"Church Going" by Philip Larkin (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- A pyx is a box used to take the host wafer to people who are unable to come to communion.
Ruin-bibber is probably a metaphor, like a wine-bibber who is somebody who frequently indulges in wine, which term was applied to Jesus - and Larkin would have known about that. A bibber, these days, is a man who boasts that he has a big penis - Larkin is less likely to have been aware of that usage.
Larkin was much taken by the history and ceremony of the church, but less convinced by its teachings and practices even though he was willing to go through the rituals. This is not a religious poem. The closest he gets to a religious experience is that it pleases him to be there.
"A serious house on serious earth it is..."
This poem captures perfectly the space between religion and secularism. As an atheist Christopher Hitchens said of this of his favourite poem: 'He could not trust anyone who believed any more or any less than the emotion that Philp Larkin expresses here'.
I agree. There is a place in all our lives for the sacred and even the spiritual, but without superstition and faith.
This is just my quiet reflection and thoughts. Please take them or leave them.
This is an honest poem about Christianity and Larkin's perspective on it. It's kind of sad. There are so many beautiful old churches in Europe... and they are so empty these days.
Wow quite a performance. In my mind's ear you got the pacing as perfect as it could be, perhaps even better than PL himself. Clever too with the pronunciation of "unignorable". You obviously understand this poem at its primordial level.
thanks so very much for these videos-just incredible thoughts and emotions are brought to my silly brain when I listen to my favorite poets art!
Love the poem and your reading of it much better than Larkin himself !
"...or on some
Advised night see walking a dead one?"
I could not have put it better myself.
I like the poem I just wish it rhymed more distinctly.