[Imc] Auden poem seems apropos
Brent McDonald
bjmcdonald6 at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 20 22:51:46 UTC 2001
This W.H. Auden poem, written on the eve of WWII, seems chillingly apropos
now, September 2001.
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September 1st, 1939
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second street,
Uncertain and afraid,
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade.
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odor of death
Offends the September night.
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
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