reader to fully understand the message of the poem‚ they should take time and research the underlying messages. Auden uses these allusions to create this idea of underlying information to help the reader to see that that is what he believes the people of the time should have done‚ rather than just doing and believing what their government was saying to them in a time of war. It seems that Auden believed that if the public were to delve deeper into the horrific situation of World War II‚ then there would
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Hypocrites run society. Society puts both men and women under pressure to fit the image of perfection‚ yet when a person does achieve this so called perfection‚ others ridicule them for succumbing to peer pressure. In “The Unknown Citizen” by W. H. Auden‚ the speaker‚ a government bureaucrat‚ also takes on this two-faced attitude towards a man identified as the unknown citizen. At first glance‚ this poem seems like the well-deserved tribute to a man who lived the perfect life‚ but after a more detailed
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can be thought as blueprints or as bundles of psychic energy that influence the manner in which we understand and react to life. There are two different categories of archetypes; the plot archetype and the character archetype. The orphan‚ martyr‚ wanderer‚ warrior‚ magician‚ villain‚ wise child‚ temptress‚ rebel‚ underdog‚ fool‚ saint‚ virgin‚ wise‚ old man or woman are all considered to be character archetypes. Call to adventure‚ isolation‚ quest and monster that turns against its creator are all
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Alek Haugen Advanced Placement English 12 Dr. Werner 05 March 2012 The Unknown Citizen By W. H. Auden Several conflicts are dramatized in The Unknown Citizen‚ the most prominent being: conformity of the middle class‚ government manipulation‚ and the loss of individualism to the standards of an average citizen. The speaker of this poem is non-traditional as the poem is‚ in fact‚ an inscription on a “marble monument erected by the State.” The inscription is dedicated to a “JS/07 M 378”—presumably
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Since the poem was publish during the late 1930‚ Auden must have wrote his poem near the end of the great depression. Auden observe a time of great famine and misery. Auden saw the whole world was affected by the great depression and many people were unable to feed themselves or their families. Some suffered more than others during the great depression. The wealthy
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seen in poems such as “The Seafarer”‚ “The Wanderer”‚ and “The Wife’s Lament”‚ exile is one of the most prominent elements. Anglo-Saxons wrote about exile because it was something they all feared. They were terrified of the thought of being left alone‚ or being kicked out of their own home. Anglo-Saxons placed a tremendous amount of emphasis on a sense of belonging‚ which is why exile was such a threat to them. In the poems “The Seafarer”‚ “The Wanderer”‚ and “The Wife’s Lament”‚ the main characters
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previously have similar instances are “The Wanderer” who’s author is anonymous but was probably composed in the Anglo-Saxon time period‚ and Ben Jonson’s‚ “On My First Son” which takes place around the 1600s. Both pieces of poetry deal with the passing of human life‚ which in other words means that we must all die eventually at some point in time‚ and they do that in elegies. In the first piece of poetry it starts out with the narrator: “Often the wanderer pleads pity And mercy from the Lord; but
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constantly protecting their people from outside attacks and invasions and the comitatus was the bond that held these men together and that is what they lived for. Specific Anglo-Saxon texts where comitatus is eminently portrayed is Beowulf‚ The Wanderer‚ and The Seafarer. Beowulf is an Old-English written epic‚ during the Anglo-Saxon period in which a hero‚ Beowulf‚ is shown battling three different agons throughout his life. Comitatus is tremendously present throughout this entire story. For
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stubborn because Uncle Basil and Melanie refuse to let other control them. In the book The Host melanie shows that she is by not letting the wanderer see her memories in her head and control her.” I could feel her impatience‚her almost desperate desire to be on the move”(meyer‚93). According to the quotes melanie is not listening to the wanderer and wanting to be on the move without the wonders permission. “My awkward attempt to myself was so pathetic that melanie didn’t pay any attention to
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to in the singular‚ as "the question‚" as if being free and being happy were the same thing. "The Unknown Citizen" uses the old-fashion style‚ eventhough it is written in modern era. The writer‚ Auden‚ is known as a master of of the rhyming couplet (AA‚ BB)‚ the simplest rhyme scheme in English. Auden is considered a "modernist" writer‚ but his work is unlike that of any other poet of the past century. The Unknown Citizen deserves a central place in our nation’s capital‚ considering all his huge
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