Emma and Auden Flashcards
Handsome, Clever and Rich (459 cards)
“Auden uses _ to attract attention” - John Blair
Imperatives
“Trash is the inevitable result whenever a person tries to do for himself by _ what can only be done by study or prayer” - Auden
Writing poetry
“The Enemy was and still is the _” - Unpublished book, 1939
Politician
“People _ in order to be read” - Outline for Boys and Girls and their Parents
Write
“The only reason for doing anything is for _” - Auden’s Journal
Fun
“Auden, who followed Dante in believing that the deepest human motive is creative _” - Boly
Joy
“The need to find an acceptable expression for his _ was the first technical obstacle” - Clive James
Homosexuality
“The natural world is for Auden a place of _” - Marchetti
Unfreedom
Ward is derived from keep safe/guard and surgery is derived from _
Done by hand
Auden set sail for New York in _
1939
Auden became religious from _
1944
WWII was from _
1939 - 1945
Throughout which period was the Spanish Civil War?
1936 - 1939
“_ is the subject in which we deceive ourselves the most” - Auden
Love
Structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species - Jung
Collective Unconscious
Auden considers himself to be an “_” of society, not a “prophet”
Interpreter
“Poetry makes nothing _” - Auden
Happen
Rebecca Price Parkin suggests the tone of In Praise of Limestone can be summarised into “intimacy, humility, and _”
Tenderness
In In Praise of Limestone there is a “relaxed but intimate and knowing contact with _.” - Rebecca Price Parkin
Reality
In Praise of Limestone “presents to us a _, which corresponds to, certain moral qualities of human behavior” - Anthony Hecht
Climate
Up There has less sestets than Down There and is catalectic (metrically incomplete) as it commonly only has _ syllables per line
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- “Now a schooner on which a lonely only//Boy sails North or approaches _” - Up There (1963)
Coral islands
- “All it knows of a changing world it has to guess from _” - Up There (1963)
Children
- “A starving spider spins for the occasional fly: No _ recalls it” - Up There (1963)
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