FIVE QUOTES OF W.H.AUDEN ON HIS BIRTHDAY !

WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN
(W.H.AUDEN) WAS BORN ON
FEBRUARY 21, 1907 IN
YORK,ENGLAND.HE GOT
RECOGNITION IN HIS LATE
TWENTIES AS A YOUNG POET OF
HUGE PROMISES PLUS
POTENTIALS.HE HAD GOT
ENCOURAGEMENTS FROM POETS
LIKE T.S.ELIOT AND
W.B.YEATS.AUDEN’S EMINENCE
ROSE IN EARLY THIRTIES OF THE
LAST CENTURY AND A GROUP OF
POETS CAME TO BE KNOWN AS
‘AUDEN-GROUP’ THAT INCLUDED
APART FROM AUDEN HIMSELF,
CECIL DAY LEWIS, LOUIS McNEICE,
STEPHEN SPHENDER,CHRISTOPHER
ISHERWOOD. . .to name a few.
Termed as ‘POETRY OF 30s’ , The
Poems of the Auden-
Group,among other
things,primarily addressed the
socio-politico-economical
problems of the late twenties n
early thirtees and their poems
had raised the status of poetry as
social-practise and as a medium
for articulating the central
themes of the contemporary
social-discourse!Their Poems
Were Eclectic In Its Ambit And
They Had Touched Almost Every
Aspect Of The Contemporary
Society!
They were very much leftist in
their orientations and that was
quite a marked shift from early
poetry writings !
LET’S CELEBRATE THE 106′TH
BIRTHDAY OF THE ANGLO-
AMERICAN POET, W.H.AUDEN BY
FIFE QUOTES :-
(1.) ” WE ARE ALL HERE ON EARTH
TO HELP OTHERS ; WHAT ON EARTH
THE OTHERS ARE HERE FOR I DON’T
KNOW ! ”
(2.) ” HISTORY IS, STRICTLY
SPEAKING, THE STUDY OF
QUESTIONS ; THE STUDY OF
ANSWERS BELONGS TO
ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY.
”
(3.) ” ”PERHAPS THERE IS ONLY
ONE CARDINAL SIN; IMPATIENCE.
BECAUSE OF IMPATIENCE WE WERE
DRIVEN OUT OF PARADISE,
BECAUSE OF IMPATIENCE WE CAN’T
RETURN. ”
(4.) ” IF EQUAL AFFECTION CANNOT
BE, LET THE MORE LOVING BE ME. ”
(5.) ” WE MUST LOVE ONE
ANOTHER OR DIE. ”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY,W.H.AUDEN!
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MRITYUNJAY JHA
4F,ADARSH NAGAR
SAMASTIPUR
BIHAR
INDIA.
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