W.H Auden wrote a poem called September 1, 1939. Why did he call his poem that way? He wrote this poem in the first days of World War II. When the invasion to Poland was taking place He was very critical when writing about the moment he was going through. All the lines of the poem referred to the complex situation that everyone was living. This poem was very important to me because it portrayed what W.H Auden had to say about war, so it really helped me to understand a little more what is was like to be in war times.
The poem started with this line “I sit in one of the dives” and it continued “uncertain and afraid” This two lines meant to me that the author was making use of his own voice to represent the feeling, reactions, fears, uncertainties that ordinary people went through towards war.
Moreover, the entire poem is a helpful tool for the speaker to address the lies he perceives transmitted by all types of government and law representatives. “And the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: there is no such thing as the State” Here it seemed to me that the poet complained that the government fooled people by making them to “believe” that war was the best thing.
W.H Auden is very critical and down at times, although he gave some sorts of answers. “We must love one another or die” is an invitation to return to our human nature and to stop using mistakenly our influence and condition. This is very true, in the sense of human kind destroying ourselves. Illustrations of that are the Nuclear Bomb and terrorist attacks among others. This poem is definitely food for thought and it can be perfectly taught in a high school context.
The poem started with this line “I sit in one of the dives” and it continued “uncertain and afraid” This two lines meant to me that the author was making use of his own voice to represent the feeling, reactions, fears, uncertainties that ordinary people went through towards war.
Moreover, the entire poem is a helpful tool for the speaker to address the lies he perceives transmitted by all types of government and law representatives. “And the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: there is no such thing as the State” Here it seemed to me that the poet complained that the government fooled people by making them to “believe” that war was the best thing.
W.H Auden is very critical and down at times, although he gave some sorts of answers. “We must love one another or die” is an invitation to return to our human nature and to stop using mistakenly our influence and condition. This is very true, in the sense of human kind destroying ourselves. Illustrations of that are the Nuclear Bomb and terrorist attacks among others. This poem is definitely food for thought and it can be perfectly taught in a high school context.
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