Agnosticism in larkin’s poetry

‘The Movement’ poetry was a new poetic build upon the old, emphasizing transparency, rational impassivity, and formal perfection with Philip Larkin as its poetic exemplar. His poetry anticipates on telling the truth about life as it is and signifies the voice of an accumulated experience of Larkin as a poet and Larkin as a person of the time. Most of his poems show the poet’s ambivalent attitude towards religion, which was also the general attitude of the time. As he examines various sacramental motifs in his poems, he muses on how they once provided humanity with ideas and objects invoking the reality of transcendent meaning. The connotations of the words in Larkin's poems are used to disarm the skeptical reader of his own skepticism for long enough to persuade him to admit the necessity and legitimacy of metaphysical speculation. This paper aims to show the agnostic-self of the poet persistent in some of his poems.