The poem “ The Unknown Citizen By W H Auden is a poem that pokes fun at the life of a automaton working in a factory. Reading it in a glance‚ I find the title that catches my very first attention. It is because Auden gives the poem such a title that the whole poem sounds so dramatic and pompous‚ as if it is dedicated to some citizen who have sacrificed so much for the nation. The citizen‚ to my dismay‚ is never named and remains as the unknown one throughout the whole poem. The citizen is referred
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others‚ describe the indescribable‚ and tell a story. W. H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” does all three‚ and more for readers‚ due to its beautiful descriptive language‚ blinding imagery‚ and theme. The poem demonstrates everything that is needed in such a fine piece of literature. Have you ever heard the rustle of the leaves? The wind whistle‚ maybe? Both are examples of descriptive language that we hear every day‚ so often that it has become common. Auden takes the simple things and describes them with sharp
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Easter 1916‚ Wild Swans at Coole and Second Coming The timeless essence and the ambivalence in Yeats’ poems urge the reader’s response to relevant themes in society today. This enduring power of Yeats’ poetry‚ influenced by the Mystic and pagan influences is embedded within the textual integrity drawn from poetic techniques and structure when discussing relevant contextual concerns. “Wild Swans at Coole”‚ “Easter 1916” and “The Second Coming” encapsulate the romanticism in his early poetry
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What are the roles of artists in W.H. Auden poetry ? W.H Auden was born in 1907 in the town of York. Later he studied at Oxford University to become a literature teacher and a poet. He spent few years in Berlin but travelled also to Spain then to the USA‚ always committed politically. “Selected Poems” is published in 1930‚ after the war‚ to report people’s feelings and reality of the time. W.H. Auden’s poetry raises a wide range of issues and subjects such as love‚ war‚ relations or even
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8328 July 16‚ 2008 Auden ’s Museum of Fine Arts There are many people who cannot help but to wonder the meanings of life and everything it brings us. Some wait for meanings to come to them‚ while others seek meanings. Whether one seeks or waits he will find that meanings are influenced by myth‚ history‚ experience‚ events and proven facts. Many poets use history or myth to tell their own stories or express their own points of view on certain topics. W.H. Auden was born in England
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Discuss the theme of love and longing in the poems you have studied. ………………………………………………………………………………………….. Poetry enables a writer to express his or her feelings. Like painting or music it is an art‚ an art that supplies the reader with an insight to the poet’s mind. Poetry is a response and an evaluation of the author’s world and life. A poem can represent sorrow‚ joy‚ love‚ anger‚ despair‚ or it can simply be a reflection of an event or memory. Poems frequently have hidden meanings‚ but many are
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After reading Landscape With The Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams and Musee Des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden‚ a clear idea is present. Both authors seem to minimize the importance of Icarus’s death‚ but with what intent? In both poems‚ self-concern outweighs any intentions to help Icarus. It is clear to me what the authors were trying to express by implying that people simply had their own things to do‚ too used to disaster to even care about anyone besides themselves. In the Landscape
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surely have. To be such an individual in many instances may not be what it appears. The following discussed poems are examples of such misjudgment. In W.H. Auden ’s "The Unknown Citizen" each line from beginning nearly to end consists of something that this individual has done that would associate him with being a man of the "Greater Community" (Auden 5). All of his traits are either professional or approved of by the overall society. It is not until the last two lines that the poem strays slightly to
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Disabled and Refugee Blues‚ written by Wilfred Owen and W.H. Auden respectively‚ are both responses to exile and isolation and a cry for those who are suffering from them. Disabled‚ written in 1917‚ was a response to the isolation caused by disability and especially that of war veterans. Auden’s‚ Refugee Blues‚ written in 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War‚ was criticism of the widespread discrimination of Jews in Europe and more specifically German Jews by the Nazis. A key difference between
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that doesn’t equal the life of anyone. He should have done the legitimate process through the legal system. 3. This bitter political story depicts how an unjust system gradually corrupts its innocent victims. Ha Jin was influenced by poet W. H. Auden belief: “Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.” Explain. Consider why Mr. Chiu is arrested. Consider the public torture of his lawyer. What would be a Christian response to these acts? A Buddhist response? This belief is saying
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