Chloe McKee English 112- Formal Essay 1 February 28‚ 2011 Morals‚ Personality and True Identity Ironic Symbolism is used to define the conflicts within “The Flea” by John Donne and “The Unknown Citizen” by W.H Auden by having a significant object‚ which is a flea and a monument‚ which represent a conflict that is portrayed throughout the poem. The flea represents three different arguments that are introduced in each stanza based on sex and the morals behind it. The monument in the “Unknown Citizen”
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a poem with many juxtapositions‚ which is used by Auden as a narrative technique. The first juxtaposition is ‘suffering’ alongside the mundane activities carried out by any regular person: ‘eating’‚ ‘opening a window’‚ and ‘walking dully along’. This particular contrast is significant as it reflects how suffering is inevitable and often it occurs amid terrestrial routines which take place without much thought emphasising one possible message Auden is trying to give to his readers which is that humans
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Dessen Setting: A small beach town of Colby‚ North Carolina Characters: Auden West is the protagonist in the story. She was a quiet girl who didn’t know that she didn’t have the life a normal teenager should have until she met Eli Eli Stock starts out as a secretive outsider because his best friend Abe died in a car accident when a man ran a red light. He kept his feelings all to himself until he met Auden. Eli and Auden taught each other how to grow and love. Robert West is Auden’s father. He
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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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Other poets may choose to the opposite approach to economy‚ intentionally writing little but carefully using diction and metaphor to allow the reader to “say a lot” by interpreting the work in a number of different ways. The poets John Keats‚ W.H. Auden‚ and Sylvia Plath all use these techniques in their poetry‚ with
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When reading the literary work of W.H. Auden‚ readers question‚ why is he obsessed with the idea of time? It seems to be a common character in Auden’s poems since he typically personifies it. He tends to question the role of Time and how it controls every aspect of life. In the poem‚ “If I Could Tell You‚” Auden works through the idea of time being superior and how it brings an overall uncertainty— especially to love‚ and creates a desperation of knowing. By looking through a Historical Biographical
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H. Auden tells of a speaker mourning the death of someone that he or she had a deep love for (“Funeral Blues”). The speaker begins the speech by demanding everybody to “Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone”(1). The speaker even demands for dogs to be silenced and kept from making noises with a large bone (Auden). This demand for silence shows that the speaker is extremely intolerant of any noises‚ and does
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by literature artists‚ with one apparently inspiring the other to explore the tale in one different approach or another. Three of the most appealing of these versions of the tale of Icarus can be found in the poems "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden‚ "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by W. C. Williams‚ and "Waiting for Icarus" by Muriel Rukeyser. Even though the three poems talk about Icarus ’s fall‚ each covers it in a different way. "Musee des Beaux Arts" and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
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In the poem ‘Funeral Blues’ by W. H. Auden‚ a sad and depressing atmosphere is created as the poem tells a story of the man’s grief. The poet’s use of language‚ word choice and sentence structure makes the mood in this poem suitable for the message it is getting across. In this poem the author’s feelings are expressed along with the use of rhythm and rhyme. In this poem‚ the writer uses regular verse and traditional pattern of rhythm and rhyme to give impact to his unexpected imagery of the end
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Brueghel the Elder’s four hundred and fortyseven year old painting‚ “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus‚” immortalizes this historically infamous expiration. “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus” also inspired “Musee des Beaux Arts”: a poem by W. H. Auden that elaborates on Icarus’s death. Auden’s poem is split into two distinct sections: the first is a description of Brueghel’s wisdom‚ and the second is a description of Brueghel’s painting. Yet‚ a pervading theme of tragedy and disaster infiltrates
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