Craig Cramer 8 September 2014 Eulogy of Wystan Hugh Auden Unique Achievements We have gathered here to eulogize Wystan Hugh Auden‚ a man and poet of great and beautiful works of art. While I will not be able to recite and commemorate all of his works and their deeper meanings I hope to at least give a small insight on this great mans’ life through what could be considered only small sliver of his overall works. W. H. Auden was not only a great poet during his life but an author as
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Analyses of Audens Funeral blues The poem funeral blues is written by W.H. Auden in 1936 and its main themes are time‚ death and love. The lyrical I in this poem is a love one left behind‚ who describes the funeral of a man‚ the feeling involved and the future ahead. The poem is metrical since it has 4 stanzas with 4 lines each‚ the poem has end rhymes in every 2 lines‚ and the first and third line in every stanza contain the same amount of syllables same goes for the second and fourth line.
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in 1935‚ Auden did not love her. This was an arranged marriage which allowed her to have the British citizenship and escape from Nazi Germany. Auden met his true love‚ the poet Chester Kallman‚ in New York in 1939. Kallman became Auden’s companion for the rest of his life. Love is a recurrent theme in Auden’s poetry but so are many others such as world war two‚ politics‚ indifference‚ nature or time. Therefore‚ we could ask ourselves how important love is in Auden’s poetry. As Auden has been
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Good morning ladies and gentleman‚ and thank you for the opportunity to discuss my favourite poems by W.H Auden‚ although ‘Lullaby’ was written in the 1940’s‚ Auden is widely considered among the greatest literary figures of the 20th century‚ this must mean something. It is understandable if at this point in time your eyes have just rolled to the back of your head‚ with your head dropping at the thought of listening to another British poem from the same era as every other presentation. But it might
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A Made World: Anthropocentricity in the Works of Auden and MacNeice In his 1941 poem “London Rain‚” Louis MacNeice writes “The world is what was given / The world is what we make.” In “London Rain” itself‚ MacNeice does not emphasize the latter sentiment‚ ultimately hinting at the difficulty of trying to “make” anything in his concluding description of his “wishes…come[ing] homeward / their gallopings in vain.” Yet for all the suggestions of impotence in “London Rain’s” final stanza‚ in MacNeice’s
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This assertion is clearly expressed through ‘September 1‚ 1939’‚ ‘Refugee Blues’ and ‘The Lesson’. Auden’s early poetry‚ influenced by his interest in the Anglo-Saxon language as well as in psychoanalysis‚ was sometimes riddle-like and clinical. Auden was clearly intrigued in discovering how the mind works and the impact it has on society as a whole. ‘The Lesson’ examines the prejudice‚ unacceptance and isolation that an individual may face when differing from normal social boundaries. Taking
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Student: Hassan Mohammad Hilles. Instructor: Prof. Dr. Kawther Mahdi Course Title: Modern English and American Poetry Wystan Hugh Auden Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York‚ England‚ in 1907. He moved to Birmingham during childhood and was educated at Christ Church‚ Oxford. As a young man he was influenced by the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost‚ as well as William Blake‚ Emily Dickinson‚ Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ and Old English verse. At Oxford his precocity as a poet was immediately
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The Unknown Citizen Wystan Hugh Auden (To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) 1. He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be 2. One against whom there was no official complaint‚ 3. And all the reports on his conduct agree 4. That‚ in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word‚ he was a saint‚ 5. For in everything he did he served the Greater Community. 6. Except for the War till the day he retired 7. He worked in a factory and never got fired‚ 8. But satisfied
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Ponyboy and I had fallen asleep at the loft a couple hours later pony came running I asked what was wrong. “Johnny come we’re running away darry hit me.” Gee pony I would have never thought that darry or soda would ever lay a hand on you ever in my life hey pony where we going I asked. “Let’s take a walk to the park and smoke a ciggarate so me and darry have some time to cool off.” We got to the park and climbed up the monkey bars to take a seat on top of them so we could also get some fresh air
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Analysis:W.H.Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles” 01. Analysis of W.H.Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles” .“The Shield of Achilles” belongs to W.H.Auden’s collection The Shield of Achilles published in 1955The classical myth of Achilles is employed by Auden to exemplify the contrast between the valiant past and unheroic present. The myth of the past is juxtaposed with the reality of the present. The classical world is set against modernity. Monroe.K.Spears asserts that the shield symbolizes images of
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