Both poets' John Betjeman and Philip Larkin in their poems "In Westminster Abbey" and "Church Going", treat the theme of religion as a disrespectful ideology which is not worth believing or mentioning, as it has been for centuries the way in which the church controlled the people.

Throughout "Westminster Abbey" the description and language used by the poet creates an ironic atmosphere that is the first point to consider that shows that the poet does not see church as a serious matter. The poem is written in the voice of a medium to high classed women who believes to have the right to command god and order him as if it were a servant.

It seems to the reader that the only real cause for the women to be religious is to...