Flashcards in WWII Poem Analysis Deck (26):
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Who wrote September 1, 1939?
WH Auden
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I sit at one of the dives...
A bar
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Of a low dishonest decade...
Great Depression
4
From Luther until now...
Led the Protestant reformation and was from Germany
5
Find out what occurred at Linz..
Austrian town where Hitler was born
6
A psychopathic god...
Hitler
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Those to whom evil is done...
Versailles, WWII is the revenge
8
Exiled Thucydides knew
Philosopher with Democracy beliefs
9
The enlightenment driven away...
Changing the government, democracy is the answer
10
We must suffer them all again...
Back at war again
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Into this neutral air...
US is neutral at the time
12
Where blind skyscrapers use
City, what we can achieve
13
Out of mirror they stare...
Hitler,, Mussolini, Hirohito are villains
14
Cling to their average day...
routine day
15
To make this fort assume...
The bar he is at
16
The furniture of home...
US protected well from violence of the war so far
17
Craves what it cannot have...
We want universal love, peace, and prosperity
18
The defense commuters come...
coming to work
19
Repeating their morning vow...
Routinely going to work
20
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now, who can reach the deaf, who can speak for the dumb?
Who will help the people who need it? We are too worried about ourselves, we wonder if we will reach out.
21
All I have is a voice...
As a poet, all he can do is write
22
Of the sensual man-in-the-street...
What are people saying about the war
23
Eros
Greek god of depression
24
Whose buildings grope the sky: there is no such thing as the state...
None of our business, were neutral, not attacked yet
25
And no one exists alone; hunger allows no choice to the citizens or police, we must love one another or die.
Humanity binds us together no matter what, we are all in equality in our country, no discrimination, to love means no choice but to care.
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