... poem Ist September 1939, W.H. Auden wrote: I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. Auden, somewhat disillusioned, emigrated to America and during the following thirty years his poetry became more personal and more spiritual. It also came to reflect a belief that poetry cannot by itself create a better world ... began with Consider and the need to alert readers of poetry to immediate contemporary events ended with a message that poetry cannot really influence things. Auden's own departure from England to...

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