I.Biography (Persoon a 1-4)
A)Born in York
1) raised(a) in Birmingham
2)Educated at Grashams School in Norfolk at Oxford
3)Sent his first business deal of poems to T.S. Elliot
(a)Sent in June 1927
(b)Received good reviews
(c)Not publised
4)Sent second batch
(a)Called Poems
(b)Was published in 1930
(c)Began Auden Generation
B)Served in Spanish Civil state of war (1937)
1)Strengthened his Anglicanism
2)Changed his poetry
(a)From political
(b)To philosophical
C)Moved to America
1)Married Erika Mann (He married a Mann) to secure her passport (Homosexual)
2)Married Chester Kallman
D)Traveled during 1950s
1)Spent his while equally in America and Europe
2)Owned a dental plate in Italy
3)Taught at Oxford
E)Settled and died( in 1973) near Vienna
II. poetical Subjects
A) policy-making
1)Seen mostly pre-1937
2)Seen in The Unknown Citizen
B)Philosophical
1)Seen mostly post-1937
2)Seen in genus Musée Des Beaux Arts
3)Is known to be religious(Kirsch xii)
(a)For the sentence Being
(b)Horea Canonicae
4)Concerned with morals
III.
The Unknown Citizen
A)Interpretation
1)Lines 1-3: Facts and figures vs hopes and dreams to distinguish a person
2)Lines 4-5: Saint hood: old vs modern sense of the word
3)Lines 4-5: Opinions form by personal convictions vs institutions
4)Lines 6-8: Fudge motor, maker of social norms( report Unknown Citizen 1)
5)Lines 12-15: Citizens effected by advertizing
6)Lines 22-27: Eugenics improving human lavation through control of hereditary factors
7)Lines 28-29: Who determined the citizens happiness or freedom(Explanation Unknown Citizen 2)
B)Elements
1)Irony(Persoon and Watson Auden 1)
(a)Line 27 interfered vs involved
(b)The speaker is as unknown as the citizen we, our
(c)Fame in being a unremarkable
2)Political elements
3)Allusion to the unknown soldier (Pipen 1)
4)The citizen is completely absent
5)Rhyme scheme throws off-key balance...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay
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