Am Getting Old Now

Im acquiring old now is a prose numerates. It is quite spirited and simple and presents the theme of cycle of life. It depicts the poets acceptance of death and links with with his desirous memories of his mother. The first part of the verse form symbolize his ambitiousness while instant part signifies that he is close to death. He address death as a long lost friend whom he seeks to meet in the near future(a). Realizing that he has got less time to spend on human race he think back his past memories and dream a lot.In his dream he recollects how much love and pride his mother had in him. The numbers is very touching and it instills in us the pain we feel when we reminisce slightly good things long lost. A few Key Points confrontation of different cultures tourist comes from modern realness, and thinks he sack up dispose of this get to beggar. But when she speaks she casts a spell, and shows him who is really in control. Woman rooted in where she lives identified wit h sky and hills, and draws withdrawice from them.Things non what they seem woman has more than power than the poet suspects. Poem has a formal structure in triplets (three- declension stanzas). occasional half poesys (coin/ shrine, on/ skin) and full rhyme to mark a pause (crone/ alone). Lines ar lilliputian exclusively al ways with pattern of two stressed syllables, apart from in the final line, where the single stress brings the poem to a full stop. nigh words monosyllables. Poem refers to old woman with third-person pronoun she and tourist with second-person pronoun, you.This makes poem worry an account of real experience, putting reader in tourists place. Coin which woman begs at the start of the poem, gives the ending its enduring image. Tourists weakness is suggested in illustration of small change, while in her hand indicates that woman has power over him. Her power also suggested by appearance her eyes are bullet holes, dark spaces with null behind. Cracks (li nes) in her face turn into cracks in sky, hills and temples, while the old woman remains invulnerable (shatter-proof). Crone suggests the charming power of the old woman. CHURCH GOING Larkin starts his poem after making it sure that no ceremony was exit on in the Church. It con nones that Larkin himself did not like ceremonies being performed in the Churches, perhaps due to peoples unconcerned attitude towards church servicees, otherwise he would not have verbalise Once Im sure heres nothing spillage on. When Larkin says Another church, in line subjugate three, it denotes that he has visited all the churches and every church of the city is empty.Perhaps, he has open up several(prenominal) mental tranquility in the present church that is why he made his mind to stay in the Church for some time as it was his habit. There is a beautiful blend of uniform and dissimilar objects in the poem. For example in stanza number four, line number 28 after dark and dubious women and in sta nza number six, line number 48 suburb and scrub respectively. The ellipses, personification, humour, rhetorical questions, transferred epithets, synaesthetic imagination and irony combined make the poem a thing of beauty.The outlive stanza brings about the final and absolute conclusion. A serious house on serious earth it is pays tribute to churches. Everything of this world may wipe out, nevertheless superstition, like belief, must die but the essential uniqueness of churches can never obsolete and out dated. This final stanza not only brings about the ultimate message but it also removes the ambiguity of the poem. In the poem the poet asked his readers And what remains when disbelief has gone? . When everything will be annihilated, the church shall indemnify humanity.This is a poetic reaction to the failure of organized religions of all traditions, not merely of Christianity, as the word church might lead us to suppose. Traditionally the way of devotion has been pointed out a s the method of apparitional pursuit for the ordinary man of this Age of Kali. And organized religions, even though they are severely afflicted with schisms and sectarian conflicts and even open fights, amplify and pilgrimage itself has become a billion dollar business the world over. But this is a far cry from the real way of devotion.Sri Aurobindo has expounded the constitution of this path in his The Synthesis of Yoga. But he has conceded that in the religions of the masses, a most external form of ceremonial worship , has a sure role to play. This is said in the light of the tantric gradation of ghostly pursuit which begins at the level of the herd, the animal or the physical being, the terminal stage of its discipline But larger and larger segments of this herd is getting estranged from their usual beaten tracks and wandering away from moral ways and seeking solace in drugs and debauchery.This is a clear indication that humanness has come of age, that here after mankind has no use for organized religions of the traditional types. The clergy cheats this that is why it resorts to terrorism in desperation. A college professors palm was chop of by the agents of terror who speak for Islam. And the Christian management of his college had him dismissed. Do you know what he was accused of? He had used the name Muhammad in a question he had set for his students.The question required the students to apply punctuation mark marks to a passage that reported a conversation among a character named Muhammad and God. And well/hell, the professor got his palm chopped off in the name of the Merciful. If this is religion then religion is doomed. church going is rather reality of life.. according to the present generation church going is just a tradition that they have been following since childhood, so its a part of their practise more than faith. Larkin is not interested in both ceremony or any sort of prayers and priests instead he visits the church when it is s ilent.He does not have belief in church but cannot stop visiting it. However he still has that respect for church as he removes his clips of trousers as a mark of respect. Throughout the poem his thoughts reveal his concern for the present as well as future of and wonders what is their fate. It is worth noticing that even though poet is not a believer of these churches, he still continues with his traditions and not only him, in fact most of us do have the same mindset, be it a temple, mosque or church. then the poem is applicable in present era.