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W. H. Auden |
Funeral Blues (1936; The Year's Poetry 1938) September 1, 1939 The Shield of Achilles For the Time Being |
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Funeral Blues The Shield of Achilles |
He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
She looked over his shoulder, For vines and olive trees... |
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In Memory of W. B. Yeats At Last the Secret is Out |
For poetry makes nothing happen... ...there's never smoke without fire...there is more than meets the eye |
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For The Time Being |
The Christmas Feast is already a fading memory,And already the mind begins to be vaguely awareOf an unpleasant whiff of apprehension at the thoughtOf Lent and Good Friday which cannot, after all, nowBe very far off. But, for the time being, here we all are,Back in the moderate Aristotelian cityOf darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid's geometryAnd Newton's mechanics would account for our experience,And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.It seems to have shrunk during the holidays. |
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September 1, 1939 - rf. Yeats, Easter, 1916 - glimpse of The Age of Anxiety (alliterate) |
... We must love one another or die ... Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. |
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Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) |
comic early novels set in Trinidad and Tobago,
post-colonial |
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Kingsley Amis (Larkin's friend) Lucky Jim (1954) +Bookshop Idyll Against Romanticism |
comedic novelist satirizing the high-brow (Angry Young Man Jim Dixon) a temperate zone: Woods devoid of beasts, roads that please the foot |
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Rhys
Good morning, midnight |
from Dickinsen poem |
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Major Barbara by Shaw |
Undershaft |
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chinua achebe Things fall apart 1958 |
Yeat's The Second Coming |
