![]() I keep coming back to Yeats and in particular to this poem. Best to let the grand master stand on his own. In most, it seems trite and a failed attempt at being cerebral. In some cases, like Joan Didion, it worked. There have been countless artists who incorporated into their work or title some element of Yeats’ brilliance, hoping by creating that connection, their work will have greater significance and depth of meaning. Yeats’ poem, The Second Coming, is one of the most appropriated poems of the last 100 years. No, Auden paints in a pallete of plain language that enriches our experience of reading him. Auden was a perfectionist in the selection of his words and the construction of his poems, but he didn’t talk over our heads in some academic lexicon, foreign to our English ears. Some writers words are so perfect that it’s hard for us to see our own lives contained within the lines. He embraced it, letting it become the thing that made his writing accessable and understandable. Auden never rejected anxiety as something to be cured or admonished. Poetry, even love poetry is a rapture of distress. ![]() Join 457 other subscribers Search for: Archives ![]()
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