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Notes on Drowning: Eliot and Auden

Notes on Drowning: Eliot and Auden. HUM 2213: British and American Literature II Spring 2013 Dr. Perdigao January 30-February 1, 2013. About Suffering. “Prufrock” “Musée des Beaux Arts” Notion of suffering, human condition

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Notes on Drowning: Eliot and Auden

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  1. Notes on Drowning: Eliot and Auden HUM 2213: British and American Literature II Spring 2013 Dr. Perdigao January 30-February 1, 2013

  2. About Suffering • “Prufrock” • “Musée des Beaux Arts” • Notion of suffering, human condition • Ideas about civilization, between Yeats, Eliot, Auden, extending beyond Ireland, England, America • Insiders/outsiders • Woodrow Wilson’s idea of a war to end all wars but inevitability of WWII • Idea of politics, aesthetics, western civilization as a whole • Immediacy of experience, impersonality

  3. Falling http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/philolog/2005/11/ekphrasis_ovid_in_pieter_breug.html

  4. W. H. Auden (1907-1973) • Born in York, England; educated at Christ Church, Oxford • Moved to U.S. in 1939, became an American citizen in 1946 • “from T. S. Eliot he took a conversational and ironic tone, an acute inspection of cultural decay” (Greenblatt 2421) • Great Depression, Waste Land, draws on Freud and Marx; England as “nation of neurotic invalids, now as the victim of an antiquated economic system” (2421) • Rejection of Yeats’ notion of poetry as transcendent, redemptive, the prophetic role of poetry

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