to the church in another way.It appears to be Larkins belief that one day religion will no longer hold a place in our society and that churches will fall out of use. Instead of also believing that churches will stop having any spiritual importance he wonders instead how it will be expressed as the church will no longer be a place of worship. Superstition is brought in as an alternative to the spiritual side of religion Shall we avoid them as unlucky places?. He feels that the ground a church is built on is special and that even when people have forgotten all about the church and its significance, it will never quite die:- Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious,And gravitating with it to this ground,I believe here he is talking about himself and his own experiences because he often finds himself in a church, which is surprising because of his apparent aversion to religion. I think he is saying that even if religion dies out he will still always be searching for what it meant or for something similar and that there will always be people like him.In the poem High Windows the religious message is not quite as obvious. The poem is about youth and happiness and the two going together due to the changes in modern society and each generation being freer than the last. He talks about a slide down to happiness. This is unusual because generally happiness is associated with going up. The slide is a metaphor for hell and the fact that these young, carefree people will pay for their happiness. For himself looking at the next generation he is talking about the sexual revolution. When he talks about the freedom he had he means the freedom of choice in religion. When he was young it was a relatively new concept that young people were not forced to follow a faith:- I wonder if Anyone looked at me, forty years back,And thought, Thatll be t...
