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    This poem describes the loss of nature and countryside in England due to industrialization. The speaker feels that natural areas are being rapidly replaced by development and that "nothing is going to last". If current trends continue unchecked, soon the entire landscape will be "covered over" except for just tourist areas. The poem expresses worry about how fast the natural world is disappearing and the effects this will have on future generations.

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    This poem describes the loss of nature and countryside in England due to industrialization. The speaker feels that natural areas are being rapidly replaced by development and that "nothing is going to last". If current trends continue unchecked, soon the entire landscape will be "covered over" except for just tourist areas. The poem expresses worry about how fast the natural world is disappearing and the effects this will have on future generations.

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    GOING,GOIN

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    By Philip Larkin
    TITLE SIGNIFICENCE
    Philip Larkin's poem “Going,Going” was written
    in 1972 after WW2
    It has 52 lines divided into nine stanzas
    It describes about the loss of nature due to
    industrialization and its impact on human beings
    and the universe.
    ‘Going, Going’: the title immediately summons the
    third, unspoken word in the usual auctioneer’s
    phrase: ‘Going, going, gone.’ Britain is not quite
    gone altogether, but it is going, and it is being
    auctioned off, sold to the highest bidder.
    This, in a sentence, is the meaning of Larkin’s
    poem.
    ECO CRITICISM

    Eco criticism theory has been given


    by Harold in 1995.

    Ecocentricism is the study of the


    relationship between literature and
    the physical environment. Its an
    earth-centered approach to literary
    studies.
    Its emphasize the interdisciplinary of
    nature and culture.
    EXPLAINATION
     ‘Going Going, This poem is about the beauty of nature replace
    by the stark reality of modernity.
     Invites the reader’s attention to a serious ecological calamity.
     Theme: loss of nature And its effect on human beings. Poet
    said it effects on us but after some time

     This poem has been written in Industrial Revolution


     Trees were cutting for building new houses and the motors
    were also invented and spreading pollution
     Philip was very much worried about the future’s
    developments which were so much dangours for future
    generation. But he himself was happy because he thought the
    England industrial revolution would not be preserved during
    his life.
     No matter how much we mistreat the earth by putting waste
    in the sea, for instance we can overlook the damage we do to
    it, and pretend that everything’s fine. But the reality is the
    humans will be suffered in future from this so called
    development
     Larkin’s drive to preserve the English countryside? The more
    the population grows (exemplified by the ‘kids’ he mentions),
    the more demand there will be for new housing, more parking
    space, more jobs. What’s more, as the population and jobs
    expand, the businesses expand too, moving out of the cities
    and into those ‘unspoilt dales’ of rural England.
     These businesses are buying up rural land to build their
    premises, or new housing estates, on. And this is to say
    nothing of something many Englanders take for granted:
    going to the seaside for their summer holiday…
     For Larkin’s speaker, all of this is happening far too quickly,
    so he gets the sense that nothing is ‘going to last’ (picking up
    on that repeated word in the poem’s title), and soon ‘the whole
    / Boiling’ will be covered over – except for ‘the tourist parts’,
    which will only have been preserved, presumably, because
    they have financial value.
     This, then, will be ‘England gone’ that unspoken word in the
    poem’s title (going, going) is now voiced, if only in an
    imagined future-tense scenario. And all this will happen out of
    carelessness as much as ravenous greed. It may already be too
    late and the speaker feels as though all this will happen, and
    ‘soon’.
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