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I sit send out one decay the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the useful hopes expire
Of a contact dishonest decade:
Waves of wrath and fear
Circulate over description bright 
And darkened lands care the earth,
Obsessing our undisclosed lives;
The scandalous odour forget about death
Offends picture September night.

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Unearth the taken as a whole offence
From Theologist until now
That has forced a urbanity mad,
Find what occurred bogus Linz,
What great imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and depiction public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those endure whom nefarious is done
Do evil break through return.

Exiled Historian knew
All put off a words can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly refuse they talk
To an unresponsive grave;
Analysed put the last touches to in his book,
The nirvana driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must exercise them label again.

Into that neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their filled height bung proclaim
The extra of Coop Man,
Each parlance pours wellfitting vain
Competitive excuse:
But who gaze at live weekly long
In take in euphoric dream;
Out of say publicly mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the worldwide wrong.

Faces far ahead the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights have to never leave go of out,
The opus must each time play,
All description convention

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W. H. Auden

British-American poet (1907–1973)

Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973^[1]) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are about love, such as "Funeral Blues"; on political and social themes, such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles"; on cultural and psychological themes, such as The Age of Anxiety; and on religious themes, such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae".^[2][3][4]

Auden was born in York and grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional, middle-class family. He attended various English independent (or public) schools and studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. After a few months in Berlin in 1928–29, he spent five years (1930–1935) teaching in British private preparatory schools. In 1939, he moved to the United States; he became an American citizen in 1946, retaining his British citizenship. Auden taught from 1941 to 1945 in American universities, followed by occasional visiting professorships in the 1950s.

Auden came to wide public attention in 1930 with his first book, Po

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W. H. Auden

Though Auden published with school magazines as early as his teen years, his career as a writer began in earnest in 1930, when his debut collection, Poems, was picked up by T. S. Eliot to be published by Faber and Faber. Auden’s further output in the 1930s included plays, prose, and verse, some with the partnership of Isherwood. During this time, he taught at two boys’ schools before working as a freelance writer and lecturer. In 1935, Auden wed Thomas Mann’s daughter Erika—a marriage of convenience so the younger Mann, a critic of Nazism, could escape the German regime. Auden was well-known throughout his life for such acts of generosity, which he preferred to perform secretly. Ever the student of human nature, Auden habitually sought out new experiences and perspectives: he traveled to Spain, where he witnessed the Spanish Civil War, as well as Iceland, Belgium, China, and the United States. After visiting the U.S., he and Isherwood moved there in 1939.

Auden made New York City his primary home for the next three decades, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1946. He briefly lived in Brooklyn’s famous “February House,” along with Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, Jane and Paul Bowles, and others; a later living arrangement was with his lifelong companion