From line 3 to 6 the poem comments on beauty that burns away, in the course of time. The reason he gives for this is the effect of destructive things such as fever and illness. Reference to "ephemeral"1 also links with the image of beauty that is fading. Enjambment is used to create continuity; in order to connect an overall idea.
The word "but" in line 6 suggests that the speaker takes an optimistic turn. Although he is faithless, he is asking his beloved, the "living creature" (line 8), to lie in his arms "till the break of day" (line 6). The reader finds reference to the imperfections of humanity when the speaker describes his beloved as "mortal" and "guilty". Although, to him, still "entirely beautiful". Here the poet makes use of poetic language that shows the speaker's love for his beloved: he finds him beautiful, because of his guilt and mortality, and not in spite of it. The speaker fully accepts the beloved's human flaws. He loves the weaknesses and strengths of his beloved. The mere fact that relationships are not forever lasting, makes the experience of love an even more special feeling for the speaker (Lullaby n. pg.).
The second stanza starts off with a tone of speech that is relevant to love poems; moved to the speaker's imagination. The speaker intimately says that when body and soul unites it challenges all boundaries. By using the words "ordinary swoon", the speaker suggests that love is something completely universal, but also natural and that their love can be distinguished from all other relationships. In line 15 the Roman goddess of love, Venus, passes the speaker's thoughts. In line 15 the Roman goddess of love, Venus, makes her appearance in the speaker's thoughts. Referring back to the symbols of mortality and humanity, the first vision Venus brings is one of a grave – adjectively meaning severe and serious.
In the case of W.H. ... This poem can be seen as Auden's perspective of his father's profession. ... These images are found in one of his later poems "In Praise of Limestone"... It is obvious that the occurrences in the life of W.H. Auden influenced his writing. ...
W.H. Auden: A Man of his Words Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And w...
W.H. Auden writes the poem, "Funeral Blues," in 1940 (802). In the poem, "Funeral Blues," Auden talks about the loss of a person's loved one and feels as if their life is over. ... There isn't a happy ending in this poem, it's all about sadness, and death. ... Auden brings across very strong feeling of grief and depression that can happen after a loved one dies. ...
W.H. ... In "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" the speaker says, "I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong" (Auden 12). ... In "Stop all the clock, cut off the telephone," Auden uses personification by comparing the loved one to different inanimate objects. ... He also states, "My moon, my midnight, my talk, my song" (Auden, line 10) giving the loved one a characteristic of him being their light in their life. ... Without the personification in Auden's poem the reader would not be able to understand how important the loved one w...
The poem I have chosen for this essay is "The Unknown Citizen". I felt the time period reflected W.H. ... "Auden's poems speak instead in a voice almost unknown to English poetry science the eighteenth century: the voice of a citizen who knows the obligations of his citizenship (Mendalson 113)." ... People today move so fast, they never get a chance to slow down and realize that there are more important things in life than being the picture perfect, like love and happiness. I felt the time period reflected W.H. ...
Refugee Blues is a poem written by W.H. ... W.H. ... W.H. ... W.H. Auden uses repetition for many reasons such as highlighting specific words or conveying the theme of love and a message about the Jews and their miserable lives. ...
My personal response that I acquired from W.H. ... Auden's poem is very insightful and it exhibits hope to its readers. ... This poem was widely circulated on the internet after September 11, 2001 mainly because it discusses hope and the important of love in hard times. ... This hope and justice were their "ironic points of light" I agree with Auden's view that "We must love one another or die". ... Auden's poem is significant in learning from the past so that people will not repeat such tragedies....
If we take a look closer at our society we can see that the society depicted in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown is similar to the one we are living in, where people create their false image so that they can pretend of being saints, where people blame others for their mistakes although they know who did it, where people love to find faults in each other. ... The poem Unknown Citizen, written by W.H Auden is a satiric poem, in this poem he described a modern citizen of the society and critiqued on the idea of conformity i.e. he criticized the modern society's criteria of judging the co...