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Wystan Hugh Auden 1907-1973 - Coggle Diagram
Wystan Hugh Auden 1907-1973
life
1939 moved to US where he lost his political vein: disillusion with political events and religion --> improvement began from the self and not society.
1956 became a professor of poetry at Oxford.
born in York leader of the "Oxford poets".
committed to social and political issues (Freud, Marx)
he was homosexual and in England was a crime
themes:
hope
suffering
love
death
political and social issues
refugee Blues
style
regular ryming scheme AAB
the images of pain are very vivid
many repetition, 12 stanzas
themes
sorrow and the wickedness of the human race.
parallelism between the Afroamericans slaves and the german jews as refugees in the US.
Another Time
divided in 3 sections:
comic ones
celebration of great figures
meditative poems
collection of poems
symbolic title (exile he lived during his refugee time in the US)
the unknown citizen 1940
this unknown citizen
model citizen just because he did what he was supposed to.
satire of a modern society where burocracy brought citizens to be all unhappy, conformed to the state, anonymous and decribed whitout the ability to rebel