hopelessly romantic, unswervingly realist this unconventional love lyric comes with a celebration of impermanence and the sensuality of erotic love , without any promise of a lasting relationship

Impersonal detached, the poet reflects on love , through the portrayal of the infant ....

Auden has telescoped whole ages of history within the compass of a small lyric , the decay and dissolution in the modern age

Regardless of the poet's desire and intent poetry is ultimately what readers make of it , how it is received and perceived Yeats poetry lives in the hearts of his readers

When poetry takes wings and creates a space of its own what does it do can it infuse mankind with fresh hope and purpose ?

Auden contemplates on the larger question of the power of poetry...it's healing touch it's voice of hope... especially in the face of world war 11

The relentless pursuit of material progress and prosperity, the giant strides in technology and science have they diminished the best in humans?

The relentless pursuit of material progress and prosperity and the giant strides in technology and science have they diminished the best in humans

The poet's profound concern for the modern world and it's problems , man obscure, reduced to a mere cog in the wheel

The metaphor of light and dark a world engulfed in hatred , selfish self seeking possessiveness, he questions the social order, political ideologies , voices concern and hope in the power of love and humanism, the unity of mankind