The Unknown Citizen : W.H. Auden - Summary and Critical Analysis | The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden is a satiric poem. It describes an average citizen in a government-controlled state. In many big cities‚ there is a monument to the Unknown Soldier that stands for the thousands of unknown soldiers who die for their country. The title of Auden’s poem parodies this. | | The citizen to whom the monument has been built has been found to be without any fault. He was a saint not because he searched
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The Unknown Girl By Moniza Alvi The title ‘unknown girl’ may suggest that the poetess is in search of her roots‚ culture‚ traditions and heritage. She is unknown to her country‚ the place from where she belongs. She is trying to find out more about her home-country. This poem is a first-person narration from the poetess’ point of view. It us a free verse‚ autobiographical poem which is written in a single stanza containing many local dialects‚ for instance‚ ‘bazaar’‚ ‘hennaing’‚ ‘kameez’ and
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The Unknown Citizen "The Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden‚ is a commentary on government and the materialism of modern man. The poem is written in the form of an obituary inscribed on a monument built by the government in commemoration of an average‚ upstanding‚ and decent community member. Throughout the passage‚ the speaker lists facts about the citizen’s life which he believes prove that the deceased was a valuable person. In actuality these facts represent nothing more than the socially accepted
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intelligence and the reliability of IQ tests has always been a controversy in this modern society. The disparity over the understanding of intelligence has also led to much conflicts and struggles on how to measure one’s ability to acquire knowledge and reasoning. In Kevin Warwick’s “Into the Unknown‚” he argues that instead of measuring intelligence in a single dimensional value‚ difference aspects like culture and values should be taken into considerations throughout the process. In “The Social
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UNKNOWN LAB REPORT UNKNOWN NUMBER 54 Ron Williams 7-28-05 Bio 205 Prof. Curlee Fall 2005 Purpose There are many reasons for knowing the identity of microorganisms. The reasons range from the knowing the causative agent of a disease in a patient‚ so as to know how it can be treated‚ to knowing the correct microorganism to be used for making certain foods or antibiotics. This study was done by applying all of the methods that have been learned so far in the microbiology laboratory
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Imran Hyder 4th Period English An Unknown Girl An Unknown Girl is written by the poet Moniza Alvi. Moniza Alvi is a renowned Pakistani-British writer. Her mother is British and her father is from Pakistan. She was born in Pakistan and later moved to the United Kingdom. This could reflect why An Unknown Girl is about the struggle Alvi or The Unknown Girl has trying to relocate her cultural identity and cling onto it in a nation where the culture is slowly drifting away and being replaced by western
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The Unknown can take the form of anyone‚ anytime‚ or anyplace‚ that feeling you get that makes you uncertain about your future‚ is fear. Fear can be disguised as many other emotions such as anxiety or anxiousness. “Butterflies” do not exist; they are really the fear of not knowing how the immediate upcoming events will turn out or affect you and everyone close to you. There is no such thing as thinking you know something‚ there is simply knowing and not knowing‚ therefore resulting in the fear
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identification of two unknown bacteria. An unknown labeled as number 3 was given out by the lab instructor. The methods that have been lectured and absorbed pertaining to identifying
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An Unknown Girl In the poem ‘An Unknown Girl’‚ Moniza Alvi uses poetic techniques such as metaphors‚ personification‚ alliteration‚ repetition and similes in order to depict her struggles in rediscovering her cultural identity. Along with references to India and the scenery surrounding the narrator‚
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04/29/2013 G-Unknown code Gram Positive-Micrococcus luteus Gram Negative- Klebsiella pneumoniae Unknown Paper The unknown project was a very good realization of me and my partner going out by our selves. The very first day of the Unknown project I was acquainted with Denise who was very friendly and was very nice as far as assisting me in the project. The first day we were introduced too various different forms of the unknown such as broth‚ Blood agar plate‚ MSA plate
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