The Unknown Man

After pre-reading the memoir, I now know that the writer, Olga Lengyel, is telling a horrific true story. A story that she herself experienced in the concentration camp at Auschwitz and Birkenau. The memoir paints a picture of a nightmare that the writer had to live through without being able to wake up. The cover of the book seems to be a picture of the concentration camp. A brick structure covers the majority of the picture with a gate in the middle of the structure. There appear to be train…

six-year-old me thought when I left my home country of Cuba to come to the United States. That was a time of emotional turmoil for me, feeling the pain of leaving everything and everyone I knew behind. There was the excitement and fear of coming to a new unknown place, but there was also a feeling of dread at this vast language barrier that I was facing, and finally accepting and adapting to this new life. Coming from Cuba was a difficult experience that helped me grow and learn. When I first…

Literary Analysis: Dulce et Decorum est & The Unknown Citizen Verbal irony is something that can be used in our everyday life. Auden’s poem’s title, “The Unknown Citizen” begins with a verbal irony. Owen mocks war in his poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by showing how sweet and fitting it is to die for one’s country. Both of the poems use irony to present to the reader the pity of war, how there is nothing heroic about the “unknown citizen” and how the two poets have a similar intention on…

bank of the Nile. Among the pharaohs were a few mummies, which could not be identified and was aside letter of the alphabets to them. The coffin in which unknown man E was buried into was examined once he was removed. The coffin appeared to have wood shaving inside, which in tells that coffin was enlarge to accommodate the body of unknown man E. This discovery clearly shows that this coffin was not intended for him as it did not accommodate his body size, as adjustment can be seen in the…

As ancient Greek culture was afraid of the unknown, of what could happen after death, they feared a monster that could lure you in with promises of hope and then drag you into the great unknown. The idea that something so beautiful could end so horribly could horrify people of any century. I hope that these facts of Sirens throughout history will be both horrifying, as they were interesting as they were for me. In many stories Sirens were once beautiful women, and while their parentage can be…

H. Auden. One may ask, what makes him a hero? Does he have any power? Well, the answer is no. The man in this poem is just a normal citizen, who lives a quiet a common life as everyone else. So, what makes him a hero? The man was a soldier. He fought for his country till the war was over. He went home and lived his life without any recognition for what he has done. But, that does not bothered him. He just wanted…

Englishmen, foreign artists gathered in the numerous artists’ quarters that were quickly appearing outside the walls. The reliability of Wedd’s following points can be contested when examined in relation to John Bettes’ 1545 portrait entitled An Unknown Man in a Black Cap. Wedd tells us that because of the Court’s international taste and its preference for impressive paintings, especially when it came to…

Khans death in 1964. Even though he was based in Wyoming, the news broke out in many different places such as South Dakota, California, and Colorado. In the papers however, Khans real name was barely mentioned. Instead, the papers described him as the man that everyone knew him as. “Hot Tamale Louie,” a Mexican food vendor who sold tamales on the streets of Sheridan, and treated everyone with the same generosity and kindness that was given to him.…

Exploring the similarities and differences in two poems, W. H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen” and Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory”, is done to demonstrate how both author’s subjects are assumed to be happy, yet each is isolated in a unique way. The poems individually present external facts about each character, and the authors use the different narrators in the poems to illustrate the viewpoint of someone slightly removed. This characterizes the separation between the protagonists and…

LeGuin and “The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden. In both pieces the author brings out a situation where a person is unhappy with their life and how the people around them live. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” tells an amazing story of a perfect city that gets all the great things in life at the cost of a little boy suffering. As well in the “Unknown Citizen” Auden tells a story about a government official reviewing a unhappy man’s life to determine whether he…