ESSAI Volume 7 Article 22 4-1-2010 An Explication of a Poem: W. H. Auden ’s "Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone" Scott Hixson College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: http://dc.cod.edu/essai This Selection is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@C.O.D.. It has been accepted for inclusion in ESSAI by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@C.O.D.. For more information‚ please contact koteles@cod.edu. Recommended
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Auden was born 21 February 1907‚ in York‚ the son of a physician. At first interested in science‚ he soon turned to poetry. In 1925 he entered Christ Church College‚ University of Oxford‚ where he became the centre of a group of literary intellectuals that included Stephen Spender‚ Christopher Isherwood‚ C. Day Lewis‚ And Louis MacNeice. After graduation he was schoolmaster in Scotland and England for five years. In London‚ in the early 1930s‚ Auden belonged to a circle of promising young poets
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who were impossible to identify since the end of World War I. Auden wrote the poem shortly after becoming a citizen of the United States. He came to the U. S. to escape what he thought was the repressive nature of Britain. It is clear how this poem stands the test of time so well‚ because Auden’s exile could be compared to the actions of the Caucasians who inhabited this country and set up a foundation for U. S. governance that represented rebellion and resentment against the
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few line of stanza stanza one Auden starts off by recreating what the present condition was like at the time of his death to create a gloomier atmosphere to get the readers attention. He does this in most of his poem‚ creating an atmosphere to get the readers attention such as now the leaves are falling fast. “Now the leaves are falling fast” Auden recreates very windy atmosphere to start of the poem‚ to set up the lament which is “Nurse’s flowers will not last;” Auden poems are always well structured
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Discuss his poetry with reference to three poems. Without question Auden’s poetry moulds into a variety of forms and takes a stance on subjects that often affect our judgement on topics and issues that directly influence us or are merely ignored. His reasoning mainly centered on moral issues and showed strong political‚ social and psychological orientations. This assertion is clearly expressed through ‘September 1‚ 1939’‚ ‘Refugee Blues’ and ‘The Lesson’. Auden’s early poetry‚ influenced by
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Individual vs. Social Consciousness in Hobbes‚ Madison‚ Hegel‚ and Marx Hobbes and Madison derive their concept of politics in the liberal tradition of individualism‚ sketching out an ahistorical notion of human nature. By contrast‚ Hegel and Marx view the political as a social construction understood as dialectic. From this dialectic arises a progressive self consciousness. This is a historical process. Hobbes approach towards the nature of man is viewed from a mechanistic and ontological perspective:
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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 surprise you to consider the fact that each single piece of poetry that is read‚ possibly
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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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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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Auden: A Modern Poet To justify Auden as a great modern poet it can be said that Auden stands out among modern poets by his earnest effort to be great modern thinker. He was well versed in history‚ philosophy and theology and had a remarkable grip on contemporary currents of thought in political theory‚ science and psychology. Auden extraordinary style and diction make his poetry strikingly obscure. Sometimes the style makes his poem difficult to understand. This difficulty and obscurity arises
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