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W.H. Auden’s SEPTEMBER 1st Poem that brings back World War II Memories

W.H. Auden’s SEPTEMBER 1st Poem that brings back World War II Memories
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This poem was written by W.H. Auden and titled 1 September 1939. The 76-year-old poem was written when World War II take off, with clear messages that are still visible and relevant today.

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.

 

Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.

 

Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism’s face
And the international wrong.

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Published: in CriminologySocial Life

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