Patrick Kavanagh

Gospel

Gospel - meaning Summary

Claiming Moral Clarity Now

The poem asserts a collective identity as morally awake "children of light," separating the speaker’s generation from corrupt or false allegiances. Memory’s distortions erase inherited genealogies, but the group finds an "objective essence" to work toward and refuses to partake in degrading compromises. Even as propaganda and a new "gospel" are spread, the poem ends by affirming this generation’s self-definition and ethical resolve against contamination.

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We are the children of light, Wise, not companioned By goats In a condemned graveyard. Backward blowing Blizzards of memory Flatten out The genealogies. But here a point, The objective essence We work in. We shall not drink from the stink-pots. Propaganda, Gospel spread With tin shovels, We are this generation.

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