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7 de mai. de 2024 · In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles’s shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes two sequences—“Bucolics” and “Horae Canonicae”—that Auden believed to be among his most significant work.
1 de mai. de 2024 · Though, I don’t like the poem in it’s entirety. I like the use of the word invention here , the idea of “invent new-time” which ofc isn’t a possibility. And the irony of her mother saying that inventors are as bad as poets and she is writing this in a poem. As if giving a chance to an inventor, felt like giving a chance to a poet ...
Há 5 dias · W. H. Auden was an English-born poet and man of letters who achieved early fame in the 1930s as a hero of the left during the Great Depression. Most of his verse dramas of this period were written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood.
27 de abr. de 2024 · The poem is an ekphrastic poem, which means that it is a description of a work of art, in this case, the shield of Achilles, as described in Homer’s Iliad. In the poem, Auden reflects on the contrast between the heroic ideals of ancient Greece and the bleak realities of modern life.
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Há 4 dias · W.H. Auden See all mediaIn full: Wystan Hugh AudenBorn: February 21, 1907, York, Yorkshire, EnglandDied: September 29, 1973, Vienna, Austria (aged 66)Awards And Honors: National Book Award (1956)Bollingen Prize (1953)Pulitzer Prize (1948)Notable Works: “For the Time Being”“Homage to Clio”“Letters fr...
17 de mai. de 2024 · I conclude with his rebuke to the modern and ancient worlds for their totalizing brutality, a brutality his poetry’s orientation toward the real may ameliorate, in the anti-Homeric, anti-Romantic ekphrastic poem, “The Shield of Achilles.”
