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    Poetry and W. H. Auden

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    ESSAI Volume 7 Article 22 4-1-2010 An Explication of a Poem: W. H. Audens "Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone" Scott Hixson College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: http://dc.cod.edu/essai This Selection is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@C.O.D.. It has been accepted for inclusion in ESSAI by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@C.O.D.. For more information‚ please contact koteles@cod.edu. Recommended

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    Human and W. H. Auden

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    thousand windows and a thousand doors: Not one of them was ours‚ my dear‚ not one of them was ours. Stood on a great plain in the falling snow; 35 Ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro: Looking for you and me‚ my dear‚ looking for you and me. W. H.

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    "The Shield of Achilles" is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952. The Shield of Achilles is also the title poem of a collection of poems by Auden‚ published in 1955. Description The poem is Auden’s response to the detailed description in Homer’s epic poem the Iliad of the shield borne by the hero Achilles‚ illustrated with scenes from daily life. Auden’s poem is written in two different stanza forms‚ one form with shorter lines‚ the other with longer lines. The stanzas with shorter

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    Andrew Santilli Prof. Dettmer ENGL 1220-c1603 March 4‚ 2015 The Battle against Big Brother The poem “The Unknown Citizen”‚ by W.H. Auden‚ is about the ideal person that the government wants in their society. The man does everything the right way and always agrees with the government‚ whether they are at war or they are at peace. Although the man is a perfect citizen to the government‚ they do not even know what his name is. At the top of the poem‚ they refer to the man as “JS/07/M/378”(343) and

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    What is Auden trying to achieve in writing this poem? First of all‚ Auden is asking to meditate on the relationship between the past‚ the present and the future. The poem refers to the past as "History is the operator" People should not be limited by the past and it should help them to make the future -> inspiration from the past (first part of the poem). "Tomorrow the enlarging of consciousness by diet and breathing" (plus all the lines on "Tomorrow") indicate hope that humanity will draw from

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    “Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone” by W. H. Auden Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚ Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin‚ let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead‚ Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves‚ Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North‚ my South‚ my East and West‚ My working week and

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    clocks and time remind the reader that loving one another is what we have to do to present our own personality and differentiate ourselves from the rest of the world. Auden depicts the crowds in the first stanza as ‘fields of harvest wheat’‚ suggesting that we are all the same and must stand out from the crowd to live a loving life. Auden uses the phrase: ‘you cannot conquer time’ presenting the idea that it is foolish for one to think that love could be more powerful than the personified ‘Time’. This

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    BTEC Assignment Front Sheet Learner Name: Qualification: Edexcel BTEC Level 2 First Diploma in Health and Social Care Unit Title: Effective Communication in Health and Social Care Unit Number: 3 Hand in dates and times: Assignment issue date: 09.09.2013 First submission date: 13.01.2014 Final submission date: 20.01.2014 @ 16:00 Copied work will be graded as a FAIL and disciplinary action may be taken against you I certify that the work submitted for this

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    George Herbert Walker Bush was elected as the 41st president of the United States in 1989 and served one term which was completed in 1993. (stafoff 209) However he had served as vice president of the United States twice in a row under Ronald Reagan. (George Bush.) His vice presidency started in 1981 and ended in 1989. (George Bush.) He ran and was elected as president directly after his terms as vice president. (George Bush.) Many people think bush wasn’t the greatest president we have had to date

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    Auden - Summary

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    of a great memorial for W B Yeats which is supported by the intentionally placed words‚ punctuations and innuendos. In the first few line of stanza stanza one Auden starts off by recreating what the present condition was like at the time of his death to create a gloomier atmosphere to get the readers attention. He does this in most of his poem‚ creating an atmosphere to get the readers attention such as now the leaves are falling fast. “Now the leaves are falling fast” Auden recreates very windy atmosphere

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