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W.H. Auden

W.H. Auden. By: McKenzie White. Wystan Hugh Auden. Born in York, England on February 21, 1907 Moved to Birmingham during childhood Attended school at Christ Church, Oxford. Influenced By:. Influenced by the Poetry of Thomas Hardy Robert Frost William Blake Emily Dickinson

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W.H. Auden

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  1. W.H. Auden By: McKenzie White

  2. Wystan Hugh Auden • Born in York, England on February 21, 1907 • Moved to Birmingham during childhood • Attended school at Christ Church, Oxford.

  3. Influenced By: Influenced by the Poetry of • Thomas Hardy • Robert Frost • William Blake • Emily Dickinson • Gerard Manley Hopkins • Old English verse.

  4. Life Long Friends When At Oxford his skills for poetry were immediately apparent. He formed a friendship with two other writers at Oxford named Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood.

  5. Published 1928 Poems was privately printed 1930 another collection Poems (though its contents were different) was published

  6. *Poems (privately printed, 1928) *Best SellerPoems (1930)The Orators prose and verse (1932)Look, Stranger! in America: On This Island (1936)Spain (1937)Another Time (1940)The Double Man (1941)The Quest (1941)For the Time Being (1944)The Sea and the Mirror (1944)Collected Poetry (1945)The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947)Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944 (1950)Nones (1952)

  7. (continued) The Shield of Achilles (1955)Selected Poetry (1956)The Old Man's Road (1956)Homage to Clio (1960)About the House(1965)Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (1966)Collected Longer Poems (1968)City without Walls (1969)Academic Graffiti (1971)Epistle to a Godson (1972)Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (1974)Selected Poems (1979)Collected Poems (1991)

  8. Writing Styles Auden was always admired for his versatility in writing. He was gifted enough to be able to write any type of poem there is. Other than writing poems he also wrote playwrights, librettists, editorials, and essays.

  9. His Work His work talked about culture, current events, and vernacular speech; it also shows a large range of his intellect. His work shows a variety of literature, art forms, social/political theories , and scientific/technical information.

  10. WhatElseHeDid… • When he wasn’t writing he was traveling. • He visited Germany, Iceland, and China • He served in the Spanish Civil War • In 1939 he moved to the United states where he became an American Citizen and also met his lover Chester Kallman

  11. Different Views While in the United States his believes changed drastically. He is now a firm believer in Christianity and Theology.

  12. Death Auden died on September 28, 1973 in Vienna, Austria.

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  15. Test Questions • When was Auden Born? • What does the W.H. stand for? • What were two of his influences? • What was his best selling book? • What war was he apart of? • Where did he die at?

  16. -Answers- • February 21, 1907 • Wystan Hugh • Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Old English verse. • Poems (1928) • Spanish Civil War • Vienna, Austria

  17. A Walk After DarkBy: W.H. Auden A cloudless night like this Can set the spirit soaring: After a tiring day The clockwork spectacle is Impressive in a slightly boring Eighteenth-century way.

  18. It soothed adolescence a lot To meet so shameless a stare: The things I did could not Be so shocking as they said If that would still be there After the shocked were dead.

  19. Now unready to die Bur already at the stage When one starts to resent the young. I am glad those points in the sky May also be counted among The creatures of the middle-age.

  20. It’s cosier thinking of night As more an Old peoples home Than a shed for a faultless machine. That the red pre-Cambrian light Os gone like imperial Rome Or myself at seventeen.

  21. Yet however much we may like The stoic manner in which The classical authors wrote. Only the young and rich have the nerve or the figure to strike The lacrimae rerum note

  22. For the present stalks abroad Like the past and its wronged again Whimper and are ignored, And the truth cannot be hid: Somebody chose their pain, What needn’t have happened did.

  23. Occurring this very night By no established rule, Some event may already have hurled Its first little No at the right Of the laws we accept to school Our postdiluvian world:

  24. But the stars burn on overhead, Unconscious of final ends, As I walk home to bed, Asking what judgment waits My person, all my friends, And these United States.

  25. Work Cited • www.google.com • www.google.images.com

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