"Faith Healing" by Philip Larkin (poetry)

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Uploaded by on Dec 6, 2008

I don't actually know what evangelical event he was referring to, but my guess it was Billy Graham's visit to England in 1954.

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  • Another fine addition. You've do "Larkinseque" very well. Like so much Larkin, this is yet another poem that is pessimistic but compassionate. Someone else, colder and truly cynical, would have observed those masses at the Graham revival and written a very different poem. By the way, I believe that Graham draw such crowds in Britain that his stay was extended a few weeks.

  • People feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only they're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other. But, too often enough, it's not magical enough, and that lessons the value of our true worth when it comes to love.

    "When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.'

    And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

    --Gibran

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