W. H. Auden

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 the supporting characters, and leads toward a conclusion that, at times, people do not care beyond surface details. Given the twist ending in Robinson’s poem, and the plain statistics in Auden’s, any reader would be hard-pressed to find discernible happiness…

How do I Love to Stop All the Clocks “Stop all the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone” by W.H. Auden and “How do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are both poems that are expressing the author’s love for someone. However, with the aforementioned poems, the poets are in a different point in their experience of love. While Browning is writing for someone in that moment, Auden is writing in mourning for someone. Together, these poems show the power of love through life and after death. In…

Hazel was very isolated from others she kept to herself and only knew and handful of people. Hazel wanted to be alone to deal with her issues which is not unusual for someone going through a difficult situation. Peter isolated himself from all of his family and only contacted them once every couple of months. Peter decided he needed to go through his experience with death by himself or otherwise he would never be strong enough to make it. In the poem “Funeral Blues” the author Auden talks about…

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 to fit in and be normal. Despite for what he has done, he does not ask much. He…

flow with the sentences and relate to the ever-flow of life beyond lines and how it is a never ending process. It can thus be established that life moves on for everyone. Reflectively, Auden portrays the combination of religious and scientific themes that he was prone to in his life, particularly by his parents. Accordingly, there is thus illustrated the religious belief of this time and the modern world are able to critically analyse their intimidation of religion upon their beliefs,…

Loneliness is a feeling we all experience and which can make us have a specific perspective on ourselves. Sometimes it can take a sudden situation for us to get the attention we are looking for. How would you feel about having the attention you have always dreamed of, but just as an anatomic subject? This is the irony expressed in the poem Miss Gee in 1938, written by W.H Auden . Auden is a famous writer thanks to his writing skills seen in his poems, which are known because of their black…

The astonishing level of agony present in a person once they have lost a loved one is described in the poem, “Stop All of the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone” by W.H. Auden. In this poem, the poet describes the pain of ending an intense sensation of love when one of the partners has passed away. The inability to cope once one’s love has ended provokes the feeling that life has ended due to the thought of the inability to live alone. This is found in the poem when Auden states, “For nothing now can…

metaphors a reader might miss a clue that is important to the riddle. The three that I find interesting are “a melon strolling on two tendrils” (3), which I took to mean her melon shaped stomach on skinny vine like legs. The next metaphor that I found interesting in the poem is “This loaf 's big with its yeasty rising” (5). I found this one interesting because it was a clever way of saying a growing baby. The final metaphor in the poem that I found to be interesting is “Bordered the train…

belief that it’s sweet to die for one’s country. W.H Auden’s poem “The Unknown Citizen” is dissimilar to “Dulce et Decorum est” because of its novelty however, an unclear idea is presented to the readers again. This poem has an unpleasant, sarcastic and harsh double meaning. The “unknown citizen” is labeled as a number, “JS/07/M/378” which shows that he really is unknown. The man was “found by Bureau of Statistics” which makes it appear as if he wasn’t a human being and just another…

A Tear For The Terror Of Time Death: an experience more frightful to the mind second hand, leaving the mind bemused and adrift in the realm of thought. The human mind goes through certain proceedings to help grapple with the suddenness of the unexpected tragedy. In Steve Minor’s “I Cried Of Course,” Minor uses visual effects, music, and writing to express feelings of vulnerability during the event of a death. Using melancholy visual depictions and music, Minor conveys the helplessness of…