Unknown Citizen Analysis "The Unknown Citizen" seems to describe story about the Unknown Soldier‚ a term used to recognize people whose bodies are found after a battle but cannot be identified. This poem begins by the word “He was found by the Bureau of Statistics...” It is describing a person referred to as‚ simply‚ "He." We take this to be "The Unknown Citizen‚" which makes sense because his name isn’t known‚ the ordinary average citizen in the modern industrialized urban society who has no individuality
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The Average Man W. H. Auden satirizes the United States as an entity‚ which restrains individual advancement. Through depersonalization‚ the government rewards those who actually never do anything. However‚ the "Unknown Citizen" has a monument built as a symbol of his perfection. Thus‚ Auden’s "The Unknown Citizen" shows how the government makes each individual merely a number unless they do not conform to society’s norms. The monument of the "unknown citizen" is erected not to honor the
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satire lies in The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden. It is a dark satire about what can possibly happen if political and bureaucratic principles corrode the creative and revolutionary spirit of the individual. This poem ridicules the fact that government‚ or the people in control of the citizens of the US‚ know‚ or could find out anything and everything about a person. This creates the idea that people are reduced to a number‚ or a statistic‚ not a person. In The Unknown Citizen‚ the State or the government
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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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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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“The Unknown Citizen” Analysis W. H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen” is a dark satire about what can possibly happen if political and bureaucratic principles corrode the creative and revolutionary spirit of the individual. The poem was also titled after “tombs of the unknown soldiers”‚ tombs that were used to represent soldiers who were impossible to identify since the end of World War I. Auden wrote the poem shortly after becoming a citizen of the United States. He came to
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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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transformed cell will divide many‚ many times to form a colony of millions of cells‚ each of which carries the recombinant DNA molecule (DNA clone) (From: AN INTRODUCTION TO GENETIC ANALYSIS 6/E BY Griffiths‚ Miller‚ Suzuki‚ Leontin‚ Gelbart © 1996 by W. H. Freeman and Company. Used with permission.) A. Isolating DNA 1. Crude isolation of donor (foreign) DNA is accomplished by isolating cells à disrupting lipid membranes with detergents à destroying proteins with phenol or proteases à degrading
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George. H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush was born on July 6th 1946‚ in Milton‚ Massachusetts. He was born into a wealthy family. Bush’s family was politically active. As a student‚ Bush went to a boarding school in Andover‚ Massachusetts‚ called Phillips Academy. This school is where he met his wife Barbara Pierce. He was 17 and Barbara was 16. When he turned 18 he enlisted in the Navy. Bush fought in WWII and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He had a near death experience when his
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