al brocadeCreated to pretend we never die,Whether or not he knows it, in all three of these poems, Larkin comes across as wanting exactly that - religion or something similar that he could use as security to protect himself from fear. He simply has trouble in believing in it because he has a cynical and logical mind. He would like to become part of a religion but would have to see it to believe and that would never happen. He cannot simply believe what people tell him because he thinks so much. He is a troubled man but not a narrow minded one. He does not judge people for their beliefs, merely comments on them. He also does not say things are not there because he does not believe in them because he does not know for sure and is still trying to find out although he would like them to be there for him to find....
