My Life as a Soundtrack Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if there was to be a soundtrack playing in the background of it all. The soundtrack would just continue to play making sure to capture every moment in my life a significant one. When approaching a crush the soundtrack would be sure to pick a song that explained exactly how I was feeling‚ or on the days when nothing seems to be going my way‚ music that I like to call “thinking music” would continually play. Although having a
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teach us how to die‚ but how to cope with death and the uncertainty created at the death of a loved one. It also emotionally supports its readers through its invited readings. Funeral Blues‚ or more commonly known as Stop all the clocks by W.H. Auden is a good example of the grieving process many people experience. Made famous in today’s society by the reading in the popular movie Four Weddings and a Funeral‚ and reducing the majority of the audience to tears‚ it is a heart-wrenching poem captivating
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“Musee des Beaux Arts and Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” Many people don’t realize what is happening in the world. People choose to ignore what is really important‚ for example‚ human suffering and death. Others can’t seem to forget loved ones that have passed away and of course people don’t know what happens after death. Both poems “Musee des Beaux Arts” and “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” themes are about death. “Musee des Beaux Arts” was written in 1940. The poem indicates a
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<center><b>The Unknown Citizen Is Me</b></center> <br> <br>"The Unknown Citizen"‚ a poem written by W.H. Auden‚ reflects a period of vast change in America’s history‚ making "The Unknown Citizen" an example of the government’s view of the perfect modern man in an overrated‚ unrealistic society. <br> <br>During the time period that this poem was written‚ in the late 1930’s‚ The United States was going through tremendous social‚ political and economic change. Following the passing of Black Monday
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placing a strong emphasis on our need to belong and have strong relationships. Because of these needs we often end up agreeing with thoughts or opinions that do not convey our real feelings. This paper will discuss “The Unknown Citizen” by W. H. Auden and “The Nonconformist” by Donald Davie‚ two emotional and thought provoking poems that share many similarities in which the main theme can be interpreted as humans conforming to society and religion and the quality of life that can be attained by
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Natasha Johnson Professor Ostrom English 340 29 October‚ 2007 The Landlord vs. Miss Gee Langston Hughes and W. H. Auden are two highly educated authors‚ who came from very different cultural backgrounds. Literary contemporaries‚ contemporaries in that they were both working writers during the same time period‚ Hughes and Auden are known for literary works which tackle both moral and political issues. Langston Hughes’s and W. H. Auden’s poems "Ballad of the Landlord" and "Miss Gee" exhibit each
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Azam‚ Nadeem. "’Ten Hours’: A Holocaust Short Story." 1991. 1Lit.com‚ Inc. 22 June 2015. “Ten Hours: A Holocaust Short Story” was set in a concentration camp. It was cold‚ -5°‚ and the door was frozen shut. The main character is a man from Berlin‚ he is not sure where the rest of his family is located since he was dragged from his wife and children. He often day dreams about his family and their times together. The guards at the camp were cruel and intimidating. The guards often beat the prisoners
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poor men have to live in "holes"‚ shabby houses. There is a pun intended on the word "holes"‚ that people lived in shabby house and also under the ground‚ that is‚ in grave. The last line of the poem says the injustice the narrator has to go through. Auden has used the form of Blues to write thus poem‚ in which 3line stanzas are formed‚ the first two are descriptive‚ and the third is emotion‚ or the feeling. It is interesting how the narrator addresses to someone dear to him throughout the poem‚ but
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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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