Going

Question 1

What is this poem about?

Answer 1

Death

Question 2

What does the speaker fear?

Answer 2

The afterlife

Question 3

What is the speaker confused about and what does he question?

Answer 3

Confused about life and questions life

Question 4

How old was Larkin when he wrote this poem?

Answer 4

23

Question 5

What views does Larkin have about religion?

Answer 5

Agnostic views

Question 6

What does Larkin say about religion?

Answer 6

He says it’s “absolute balls”

Question 7

What’s the structure?

Answer 7

Three line stanza, then one line to conclude

Question 8

1) “there is an __ coming in”
- metaphor? approaching what? when did Larkin first write about death?

Answer 8

1) evening
- for death, death, 21

Question 9

2) “that __ no lamps”
- who has hope? finality of what?

Answer 9

2) lamps
- religious people, life

Question 10

3) “__ it seems at a distance”
- device? what does the word distance mean?

Answer 10

3) silken
- sibilance, time/age

Question 11

4) “what is under my __ that I cannot __?”
- questions what? represents? what does that show?

Answer 11

4) hands, feel
- what life is, poetical ability, his identity

Question 12

5) “what __ my hands down?”
- what type of question? what does the question mimic? what could his mind be described as? what does he question before death?

Answer 12

5) loads
- abstract confusing question, his state of mind, overwhelmed +fear +unknown, he questions what is life and his identity like who are we