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  1. 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. He describes the shield, which was once a symbol of power ...

  2. 6 de mai. de 2024 · No aniversário do fundador da psicanálise, publicamos o poema de W.H. Auden em sua homenagem

  3. 26 de abr. de 2024 · Themes: “A Walk After Dark” by W. H. Auden Theme 1: The Passage of Time The poem explores the passing of time and how it affects our perspectives and experiences. For example, the speaker notes that “the clockwork spectacle is / Impressive in a slightly boring / Eighteenth-century way” (lines 4-6), indicating a sense of nostalgia and detachment from the world around them.

  4. 7 de mai. de 2024 · The Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry. 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 ...

  5. 22 de abr. de 2024 · An annotated reprint of Auden’s great 1955 volume of verse. The Shield of Achilles. By W. H. Auden. Princeton University Press 2024. Great poets have an air of permanence about them, the illusion that they were born bearing their Collected Verse and will always be front-listed in anthologies, even though Helen Hunt Jackson and Oliver Wendell Holmes are now one with Nineveh and Tyre.

  6. 28 de abr. de 2024 · Join me on a journey through the life and works of W.H. Auden, one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. From his early days in England to his l...

  7. 25 de abr. de 2024 · Looking it up, it appeared to be from W.H. Auden’s As I walked out one evening. It was not until I read the whole poem that I understood the depth of these words. In the poem, Auden recalls going out for an evening stroll through the city, contemplating the transitory nature of life.