Auden Poems - Poems about Auden

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English playright W H Auden also poetized with his pen Famed for his 'Stop the clock' his.Funeral blues gave many a shock...

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Poems about Poets Elemental by Michael R. Burch for and after Dylan Thomas The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil— for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet; each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil, dark images impacted, rooted clay. The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning— the teeming brine, the mirrored oval flame that leashes and excites its turgid surface ... then squanders years imagining...

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Above: Wystan in fancy dress as a beetle -1912 Photographs of Wystan One of the world's greatest poets in a pose, similar to an Anne Gedde's baby Balancing beetle antennae his head at an angle a satin suit padded to emulate the chest of a beetle's, Spare legs of black velvet dangling while he stands upright feet together, his expression, militant Certain in this moment of his current resemblance to a beetle At...

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US Verse, after Auden by Michael R. Burch "Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful." - W. H. Auden Verse has small value in our Unisphere, nor is it fit for windy revelation. It cannot legislate less taxing fears; it cannot make us, several, a nation. Enumerator of our sins and dreams, it pens its cryptic numbers, and it...

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"Let your last thinks be thanks" W.H. Auden famously wrote Making Wystan Hugh My favorite male poet Note: I have excluded all of my favorite male poets on Poetry Soup, ...

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