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Wystan Hugh Auden, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - Coggle Diagram
Wystan Hugh Auden
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diagnosis of "our time" - informed by two WW, state of Europe + world, travels like Spain + China
poems about human nature + relating to violent events around the world, wanted to be in the middle of events and write from experience - concerned about finding meaning to chaotic experience
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doesn't want to give readers a morally superior take on reality, instead showing normal reactions to real things, not superior but writing from the experience
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used different forms in poetry - rhyming (or not), open verses, ballads + highbrow + lowbrow references
constant revision of his own poems, multiple deletions in his canon
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Auden was all about vulnerability - to the crookedness of desires, infidelities of the heart, injustices of the world - Arendt Remembering Auden
"On this Island"
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"shingle scrambles"
place of reflection but its still alive, has action
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"O What Is That Sound"
"valley drumming, drumming"
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"or perhaps a warning" -naivety/denial + anxiety and distress - questions at first naivety + denial, later into stress
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"dear" repetition
reminds me of a lullaby, almost like its a warning that war and battle is approaching but trying to soothe the person too, ease them into it
"none of them are wounded, dear"
us vs the other - we don't know if these soldiers are going to call them for war or capture them - same anxiety
"vows you swore deceiving" , "but I must be leaving" - wedding vows, one partner being drafted
"boots are heavy on the floor" - invasion, end of life as they know it = end of poem
dialogue, questions + answers
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Rhyme ABAB - ballad, with repetition
fear, terror, despair, doubt, urgency
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