Free Essays on W.h. Auden

  1. How Is the Plight of the Jews Represented in W.H. Audens Refugee Blues?

    situation. W.H Auden dose what a good blues song writer would do, take a single central theam and elabrate on it building towards a powerfull last stanza. The main theam of "refugee blues" is the dangerous, difficult and unforchante situation that the jews and other refugees experanced. However auden dose...

  2. The More Loving One

    The More Loving One Wystan Hugh Auden has been called one of the great poets of our time. W.H. Auden has written hundreds of poems, numerous of them are popular and recognized by many. One such poem is “The More Loving One” (Auden 282). If you questioned people as to what the poem is about, you will...

  3. Explication of "Funeral Blues"

    Explication of “Funeral Blues” W.H. Auden (1907-1973) “Funeral Blues” Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling...

  4. Love of One's Life Dying

    Funeral Blues W.H. Auden (1940) The element of this poem that had the greatest impact on me was its subject matter. It’s an incredibly sad poem about the love of one’s life dying. The first time I heard it was during the funeral scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral. The sense of finality that...

  5. 1302

    Auden himself said \"In so far as poetry, or any of the arts, can be said to have an ulterior purpose, it is, by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate.\" He went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels and found this idea confirmed by the paintings. 3 scenes (probably from Breughel), the...

  6. Discovery

    such as stealing food from children. http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/a-long-way-gone/book-summary Poem Refugee Blues by W.H. Auden http://genius.com/W-h-auden-refugee-blues-annotated Painting Discovery of the Mississippi by William H. Powell http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/6256 ...

  7. Taming or Shaming? the Taming of the Shrew in Contemporary Times

    discuss in his review the play’s worth and delight if it were performed as a farce. Is the play a farce? Poet W.H. Auden believed it was and not a very good one. In Lectures on Shakespeare, Auden tells us the "plot of Taming of the Shrew belongs to farce," and because “Shakespeare is not a writer of farce”...

  8. Othello Evaluation

    Othello Evaluation 1. “Iago as a triumphant villain” By W.H Auden The main Idea for this essay is that Iago as a villain succeeded in everything he intended to do. This essay talks about how a single person performs all the actions. They refer to Iago as almost like a hero in their opinion he was...

  9. To what extent should governments be involved in providing a child care program?

    As the poet and political analyst W.H Auden once stated, “We are all here on Earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know” as I reflected on this quote it dawned on me that it is our collective responsibility to help each other in society. Mutual support is vital in being...

  10. Ideas Across Time

    Louisa May Alcott, How I Went Out to Service Album: Money Matters. Six brief passages about money from Christopher Columbus, Henry Mayhew, W.H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Edward Bellamy, and Dana Gioia. Studs Terkle, Mike Lefevre Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty Barbara Ehrenreich...

  11. Panoramic View of English War Poetry

    poets to a deeper investigation of the hidden impulse of man. T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats were the great poets of this age. The poets of thirties were W.H. Auden, C.Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender. They were called Oxford Group of poets. Influence of Radio and Cinema is also seen is...

  12. Consider the Following Two Different Views of Poetry: ‘Ly Poetry Is the Expression by the Poet of His Own Feelings’ (Ruskin) vs. ‘Poe Is Not a Turning Loose of Emotions, but an Escape from Emotion’ (T.S. Eliot).

    how good a lover can be, but the poem is essentially directed for one person, ‘Then live with me and be my love’ (line 24). The ‘Funeral Blues’, by W.H. Auden is another example. The imagery produced, such as the sun, moon and stars are part of private memories and wonders. ‘Put out every one’ is asking...

  13. Becoming and Belonging

    still hope for us.I have been writing in what may seem to some to be a highly abstract fashion. I do not apologize for this; but I admit gladly that W.H. Auden put the point in much less abstract, indeed in a telling and moving, manner when he wrote the following lines:And to the good who know how wide the...

  14. Reflective essay

    story is based around shallow relationships, self-interest, and materialism. The poem by Auden is also based on the theme of artificial life, which describes an average citizen in a government controlled state. Auden gives us the impression that the government sees us as just a number and we are expected...

  15. Juxtaposition of Converse Religious Themes in W. H. Auden’s “Vespers”

    natural fate and human responsibility inherited by Auden in the twentieth century (Kaplan 1). However, it is the sentiments of T. S. Eliot—such as, “the religious man need not be a Christian, he may even be atheist”—that most closely resemble the views of Auden subsequent to his finding common ground between...

  16. Skye

    so? Morrie’s decision reduced the number of families who had to go through the loss and pain of losing a loved one. “Love each other or perish” by Auden was quoted by Morrie to describes the absence in a person’s life when love is missing. Life without love would be bleak, bland, depressing. Our lives...

  17. Kkkkk

    au/books/about/ Discoveries_among_the_ruins_of_Nineveh_a.html? id=378HAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y • http://www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/ individual.php?pid=I13575&ged=auden-bicknell.ged ...

  18. English work

    one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good. © W H Auden. All rights reservedFuneral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos...

  19. Frederick Louis Macneice

    (September 12, 1907 – September 3, 1963) was a British and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis; nicknamed 'MacSpaunday' as a group - a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco (1946). His body of work...

  20. Health effects of VOCs

    Reference: Cheng, E., Chow, J., Chow, Y.F., Kai, A., Lai, K. K.,& Wong, W.H.,(2011) HKDSE CHEMISTRY A modern View 2., Materials development in chemistry teaching (PP.184- CE114 Health effects of air pollution 185)., Aristo Educational Press Ltd Earth Observatory.(2015).Carbon Monoxide...

  21. May Sartob's Bibliography

    to meet many prominent artists and writers, including H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), and Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman McPherson), Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden and the Sitwells: Dame Edith and her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. The 1950s, although filled with accomplishments, brought many tragedies, beginning...

  22. Hamlet

    Wordsworth 2. Frost at Midnight: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3. A Prayer for My Daughter: William Butler Yeats 4. The Shield of Achilles: W. H. Auden 5. The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe 6. Ode on a Grecian Urn: John Keats Appendix I...

  23. Sounder

    World Literature Sounder For my book report I chose the book Sounder, written by W.H. Armstrong in 1969. I chose this book because I have always been the kind of person to have an interest in animals, and stories revolving around animals. I can also relate to the fact that the main character’s...

  24. Corruption in the Swat Valley

    or form to kill a government official, or anyone for that matter because they don’t agree with your beliefs. In a quotation about murder by W. H. Auden, it is stated “Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand...

  25. Brief Introduction to Kevlar

    org. Web. 19 May 2012. . "Macromolecules." Reading List. California Department of Education. Web. 19 May 2012. . "Tutorial 3.2 Macromolecules." W.H. Freeman Publishers. Macmillan. Web. 19 May 2012. . "USES AND APPLICATIONS: DuPont Kevlar." DuPont. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company. Web. 19 May...

  26. Mitochondria Report

    Laboratory Education: Tested studies for laboratory teaching, 13, 129–146 Berg, J.M., Tymoczko, J.L., & Stryer, L. (2006). Biochemistry: Sixth Edition. W.H. Freeman & Company: New York....

  27. zxcefefefe

    Hall, New Jersey, 1992 2. CHEMystery, Organic Chemistry, Carbohydrates, 2003 http://library.thinkquest.org/ 3. Stryer, L., Biochemistry, 4th Ed., W.H. Freeman Company, New York, 1999 4. Perona, M., Analysis of Foods for Starch and Vitamin C, 2000 http://science.csustan.edu/perona/2000/Exp8/bkg.htm ...

  28. Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

    intellectual thought and popular culture to the extent that in 1940 W. H. Auden wrote, in a poem dedicated to him: "to us he is no more a person / now but a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives ..." (Auden, 1940; Sadock & Sadock, 2007, p. 190). Through his revolutionary theories...

  29. An Analysis on Sonnet 29

    intended recipient of this and other sonnets is a subject of scholarly debate, with many believing it to be Henry Wriothesley. See: Identity of "Mr. W.H." [edit] Synopsis This sonnet starts with the line "From fairest creatures we desire increase" meaning that creatures multiply in order to preserve...

  30. Use of Animal Imagery in Ted Hughes

    wrote. It is primarily a metapoem. It is one of his well appreciated poems. This poem was applauded by several great critics like Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender. Although it is a metapoem it also deals with the theme of poetic inspiration. And the fox can be seen as a symbol of this poetic...

  31. Louis Xiv

    the nobles would not have a willing to leave their homes and move to Versailles. The historical account, The Splendid Century , written by W.H. Lewis is a very useful tool in understanding the life of Louis XIV. It tells of his life, his goals, his motives, and the means by which he achieved...

  32. The Blurred Truth of Life

    on much more important aspects of life and put in use instead of waste There are three moral themes in the book. The first one is a quote by W. H. Auden, Morrie's favorite poet, which is one of his most important lessons to Mitch: in the absence of love, there is a void that can be filled only by loving...

  33. From Oxford Journal

    essay ‘Psychology and Art Today’, Auden gives his clearest expression of his psychoanalytic commitments – Freudianism transformed by his attachment to Homer Lane, Georg Groddeck, and John Layard. As Rod Mengham has argued, ‘from the start of his career as a writer, Auden became used to thinking about psychological...

  34. Human Language

    Scientific Wang(ed.), American, Human Reprinted William Communication: Language and Its Psychobiological Bases: Readings from scientific American, W.H Freeman And Co., San Francisco, pp. 5- 12,1982. Chomsky, Noam. (1968) Language and Mind .Harcourt, Brace,Jovanovich, New York. ...

  35. How Does Greater Knowledge of Individual Behaviour (for Example, Personality, Perception, Motivation and Stress) Help Our Understanding of What Can Go Wrong (and Right) in Organisations?

    theories such as the somatotype theory developed William H. Sheldon. Sheldon “argued that temperament (personality) was related to your physique…” (Sheldon W.H, 1942, p, 140, organizational behaviour by Huczynski and Buchanan) This theory divides people into 3 categories ectomorph’s who are introverted, cautious...

  36. nbjhgd`

    concern about the effects of Hope's highly-erotic and savagely-satirical verse on the Australian public. His influences were Pope and the Augustan poets, Auden, and Yeats; he was a polymath, very largely self-taught, and with a talent for offending his countrymen. He wrote a book of "answers" to other poems...

  37. Biochemitry

    (Scientific Bases of Technological Realities/Biological Science) V. Required Texts Berg, JM, Tymoczko JL, Stryer L. 2012. Biochemistry. New York: W.H. Freeman. ISBN: 9781429272636 Required Materials: Calculator having exponential and logarithmic capabilities Graph paper Lab Coat ...

  38. Dependency of Drugs

    Theodore. LSD, Marijuana, Yoga, and Hypnosis. Aldine Publishing Company: Chicago, Illinois, 1970. Julien, Robert M.D. A Primer of Drug Interaction. W.H. Freeman and Company: New York, NY, 1988. Leavitt, Fred. Drugs and Behavior. Sage Publications Inc.: Thousand Oaks, California, 1995. Word Count: 1620 ...

  39. Belk

    other merchandise. Belk also offers private brands such as Kim Rogers, Madison Studio, Madison, J. Khaki, Meeting Street, Home Accents, Saddlebred, W.H. Belk, Red Camel and Biltmore Estate for your home. Revenue and Profit According to the article, Belk, Inc. Announces Unaudited Earnings Results…...

  40. BUS 664 FINAL PAPER ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE

    executive commentary. The Academy of Management Executive, 8(3), 7. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/210522058?accountid=32521 Franky W.H. Wong, Edwin H.W. Chan, & Patrick T.I. Lam. (2012). Compliance concerns of environmental laws at building design stage. Property Management, 30(2)...

  41. Waiting for Verdict

    A Family of Painters, Geffrye Museum, November–December 1985, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, January–March 1986 (17, repr.) Engr: Mezzotint by W.H. Simmons, pub. Henry Graves & Co. 1 January 1866 (see T03616 above) Lit: Daily News, 5 May 1857, p.2; Illustrated London News, XXX, 9 May 1857, p.444;...

  42. How Does Consumerism Affect Religion and Spirituality?

    and Todd. Hakanson, D. (1998). Oracle of the dreamtime: Aboriginal dreaming offer guidance for today. London: Connections Book Publishing. Kent, W.H. (1913). "Indulgences". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Lyon, D. (2000). Jesus in Disneyland: Replyion in Post Modern Times...

  43. George Orwell Research

    greatest achivement (Calder 74-88). CRITISCISM This is the kind of book I like to read, where I get the truth in chapters of real life...", writes W.h> Davies about Down and Out in Paris and London. Daniel George for the tribune says, "Much of it is, I should judge, written from first-hand knowledge...

  44. Syllabus

    poetry o William Blake o John Donne o Walt Whitman o William Wordsworth • Modern poetry o W. H. Auden o Paul Laurence Dunbar o Sylvia Plath o William Butler Yeats • Contemporary poetry o Billy Collins ...

  45. Away Melancholy

    interpreted as meaning that political Catholicism was a militant ideology espoused by a number of intellectuals. A number of other writers, C S Lewis and WH Auden were devout members of the Protestant church. In her childhood Stevie loved the ceremonies of the church; psalms and hymns are often echoed in...

  46. Organizational leadership

    (2014). Definition: standard. Retrieved July 16, 2014, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/standard Rubin, R.S., & Munz, D.C., & Bommer, W.H. (2005). Leading from within: The effects of emotion recognition and personality on transformational leadership behavior. Academy of Management Journal...

  47. Nationality and Patriotism

    Nationalism - New Zealand’, Lecture Notes, Week 5, History of Sport, PHSE 204. Sillitoe, A. (1975). ‘Mountains and caverns: selected essays’. London: W.H Allen, pp. 84-88. http://www.socialreport.msd.govt.nz/cultural-identity/index.html http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/1981-springbok-tour http://www...

  48. Pharm.

    see before exiting the healthcare facility most of times. References: Bandura A (1997), Self-efficacy: the exercise of control. New York: W.H. Freeman. Calabrese, A.D, Erstad, B.L, and K. Brandl, (2001) Medication administration errors in adult patients in the ICU, Intensive Care...

  49. Literature

    Epic NORMAN CAMERON (19O5-I953) 282. Fight with a Water-Spirit 283. The Unfinished Race WILLIAM EMPSON (1906-1984) 284. The Ants WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN (1907-1973) 285. The Sphinx 286. 'Here war is simple like a monument' 287. Edward Lear ALEC DERWENT HOPE (19O7) 288. Paradise Saved PAUL ENGLE...

  50. The Relationship Between Expectations and Academic Performance

    specific tasks may build into achievement within the greater domain. References Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York: W.H. Freeman. Choi, N. (2005). Self-efficacy and Self-concept as Predictors of College Students’ Academic Performance. Psychology in Schools, 42, 197-205...

  51. modernism

    Williams, H.D., and Louis Zukofsky, there were important British modernist poets, including David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, and W. H. Auden. European modernist poets include Federico García Lorca, Anna Akhmatova, Constantine Cavafy, and Paul Valéry. Modernist literature after 1939[edit] ...

  52. Confucianism and Chinese Families: Values and Practices in Education

    development of philosophy of education in mainland China and Taiwan. Comparative Education, 40, 4, 571-582 Tu, W.M. (1998). Confucius and Confucianism. In W.H. Slote & G.A. DeVos (Eds.), Confucianism and the family (pp. 3-36). New York: State University of New York Press. 14 ...

  53. 12332131321321gege

    Management Technology and the Reproduction of Knowledge Work Practices, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 9(2-3), pp 193-212 19. Starbuck, W.H. and F.J. Milliken, 1988. "Executives’ Perceptual Filters: What They Notice and How They Make Sense", in D. C. Hambrick (Ed.), The Executive Effect:...

  54. Drugs in My Neighbor

    Drug-Free America: Programs that Work. New York: Times Booksֽ 1992. 254 p. Goldsteinֽ Avram. Addiction: From Biology tо Drug Policy. New York: W.H. Freemanֽ 1994. 321 p....

  55. Spechtrophotometer

    Cengage learning, California. S.M Raju & B.Madala. 2005. Illustrated Medical Biochemistry, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, New Delhi. W.H Brown, M.K Campbell, S.O Farrell & F.A. Bettelhein. 2010. Introduction to General organic & Biochemistry 9th edition, Cengage learning, California ...

  56. Dance at Court: the Use of Dance and Opera at the Cort of Versailles Under the Sun King

    discoverfrance.net/France/Theatre/DF_theatre.shtml. Dance at Court. Dir. Rhoda Graucer. Thirteen/WNET and RM Arts. 1993. Duc de Saint-Simon. Memoirs. Ed. W.H. Lewis. Trans Bayle St. John. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1964. Durant, Will and Ariel Durant. The Age of Louis XIV. New York: Simon and Schuster...

  57. The History of Stonehenge and Theories of Its Function

    Co. Limited, 1935. Hawkins, Gerald S. Stonehenge Decoded. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. Hoyle, Fred. On Stonehenge. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1977. Lockyer, Sir Norman. Stonehenge and other British Stone Monuments. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906. Long, William...

  58. A Study of Staff Turnover at Private Hospital (Organizational Behavior)

    “Exit-Voice-Loyal” model developed by Albert O. Hirschman in 1970 to describe how people express displeasure of the organisation. However, M.J. Withey and W.H. Cooper merged this long-regarded theory with a fourth response to express dissatisfaction – Neglect. Collectively, the EVLN model emerges. They...

  59. Developmental Theories essay

    PreK-2. In T. L. Good (Ed). 21st Century Learning, 1, p. 73- 81. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Miller, P. H. (1993). Theories of Development. (3rd ed.) W.H. Freeman and Company Shabani, K., Khatib, M., & Edadi, S. (2010). Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development: Instructional Implications and Teachers'...

  60. The Wilding of America by Charles Derber Book Review

    Aldine de Gruyter,1985. M. A. Wallach and L. Wallach, Psychology’s Sanction for Selfishness: The error of Egoism in Theory and Therapy (San Fransisco: W.H. Freeman, 1983) Easwaran, Eknath. Ghandi the Man: the Story of His Transformation. U. S. A.: The Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, 1997....