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Churchgoing: Poetry Analysis
The poem Churchgoing portrays the actual act of going to church as a faithless ritual. Marilyn Nelson conveys a very mundane attitude in this poem to describe the atmosphere in the church. The church attendants “sit stolidly,” while the ceremony drags on. The narrator of the poem is also ....
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.... parents are Luthern then they are also. People withdrew the meaning of religion over time. Almost like in Orwell’s 1984, how people just did things because it was expected of them. The people do not think about why they are going. They do not necessarily believe in the values in the church - if they even know what they are. And, people do not discuss church events for fear of people discovering their ignorance of it.
Churchgoing seems to be the socially acceptable thing to do. The title is very simple. The attendants of the church are al ....
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