Love Flashcards
1
Q
Connolly on Lullaby
A
‘Auden’s non-pamphleteering love lyric was by far the best thing in his recent work, and utterly without political purpose’
2
Q
Clive James
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‘the need fro find an acceptable expression for his homosexuality was the first technical obstacle’
3
Q
Auden on love / deceiving
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‘Love is the subject in which we deceive ourselves the most’
4
Q
Auden on love for his poems
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‘all the poems I have written were written for love’
5
Q
“Like love we often weep,
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/ Like love we seldom keep’ - Law, Like Love (1939)
6
Q
Mendelson
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‘his long poems on historical, literary, philosophical, and religious themes turn into love poetry in their closing lines’
7
Q
James Merrill
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once remarked that all of Auden’s poems were written on paper on which the tears had dried.
