![]() ![]() ![]() The poet in this poem tells us how very difficult it is for men to retain his individuality and his identity in a fast-changing techno-savvy world of today. H Auden in his The Unknown Citizen seems to be completely in compliance with W.H Davis. ![]() he transfixes us to the here and now he talks about the mechanical, the monotonous life that we lead.He succeeds in doing what he sets out to do to tell us how immense is the control of the state over the individual. W.H Auden does not transport us into another world. Don’t we also hear it along with him? We do of course but if we go to The Unknown Citizen with these expectations we are in for a surprise. He said that amidst nature he could hear the still sad music of humanity. Wordsworth defined poetry as spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. Now this line captures our hearts and takes us along with the poet into the world of the nightingale to listen to the song of the nightingale which is so melodious, so happy and so free. My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains Keats, for example, in the opening line of one of his most famous odes ‘Ode To a Nightingale ‘ says My objective today is to give you an in-depth analysis and understanding of this poem.Īll of you would have read poetry that would have touched your hearts where the poet has transported you into another world- a world of imagination which takes us away far away from the real world in which we live. Now these questions I think come up in your mind but I’m sure you will get the answers as we proceed with the poem. Why doesn’t he use as many metaphors and similes as other poets do? ![]()
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