Emma and Auden Flashcards
Handsome, Clever and Rich
“Auden uses _ to attract attention” - John Blair
Imperatives
“Trash is the inevitable result whenever a person tries to do for himself by _ what can only be done by study or prayer” - Auden
Writing poetry
“The Enemy was and still is the _” - Unpublished book, 1939
Politician
“People _ in order to be read” - Outline for Boys and Girls and their Parents
Write
“The only reason for doing anything is for _” - Auden’s Journal
Fun
“Auden, who followed Dante in believing that the deepest human motive is creative _” - Boly
Joy
“The need to find an acceptable expression for his _ was the first technical obstacle” - Clive James
Homosexuality
“The natural world is for Auden a place of _” - Marchetti
Unfreedom
Ward is derived from keep safe/guard and surgery is derived from _
Done by hand
Auden set sail for New York in _
1939
Auden became religious from _
1944
WWII was from _
1939 - 1945
Throughout which period was the Spanish Civil War?
1936 - 1939
“_ is the subject in which we deceive ourselves the most” - Auden
Love
Structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species - Jung
Collective Unconscious
Auden considers himself to be an “_” of society, not a “prophet”
Interpreter
“Poetry makes nothing _” - Auden
Happen
Rebecca Price Parkin suggests the tone of In Praise of Limestone can be summarised into “intimacy, humility, and _”
Tenderness
In In Praise of Limestone there is a “relaxed but intimate and knowing contact with _.” - Rebecca Price Parkin
Reality
In Praise of Limestone “presents to us a _, which corresponds to, certain moral qualities of human behavior” - Anthony Hecht
Climate
Up There has less sestets than Down There and is catalectic (metrically incomplete) as it commonly only has _ syllables per line
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- “Now a schooner on which a lonely only//Boy sails North or approaches _” - Up There (1963)
Coral islands
- “All it knows of a changing world it has to guess from _” - Up There (1963)
Children
- “A starving spider spins for the occasional fly: No _ recalls it” - Up There (1963)
Clock
- “Can’t _ now what they couldn’t bear to part with” - Up There (1963)
Name
- “Only _ cling to items out of their past they have no use for” - Up There (1963)
Women
- “Men would never have come to need _” - Up There (1963)
An attic
Down There mainly uses _ syllable lines and is formed into orderly sestets
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- “A cellar never takes umbrage; it takes us as we are, explorers, _” - Down There (1963)
Homebodies
- “The rooms we talk and work in always look _” - Down There (1963)
Injured
- “A father sends the younger boys to fetch something for _ from down there” - Down There (1963)
Mother
- “Its flag-stoned vault is not for _” - Down There (1963)
Girls
- “Where light and heat can never spoil what sun _” - Down There (1963)
Ripened
- “We dine at _” - Down There (1963)
Street-level
- “A hold by occupation made to smell _” - Down There (1963)
Human
- “Caves water-scooped from _ were our first dwellings” - Down There (1963)
Limestone
- “Dear water, clear water, _ in all your streams” - Streams (1953)
Playful
- “If I were a plainsman I should _ us all” - Plains
Hate
- “A potter’s cuff, a gravel that as concrete//Will _ any space which it encloses” - Plains
Unsex
- “A culture is not better than its _” - Woods (1952)
Woods
- “The trees encountered on a country stroll//Reveal a lot about a country’s _” - Woods (1952)
Soul
- “A fruit in vigor or a dying leaf, utters its private _ for descent” - Woods (1952)
Idiom
- “Cuckoos mock in Welsh, and doves create//In rustic _” - Woods (1952)
English
- “Nor thought the lightning-kindled bush to tame, but, flabbergasted, fled the _” - Woods (1952)
Useful flame
- “Sylvan meant savage in those _ woods” - Woods (1952)
Primal
- “A _ hurries to inspect his rain-gauge” - Winds (1953)
Paterfamilias
- “When I seek an image//For our _ city” - Winds (1953)
Authentic
- “Winds make weather;weather//Is what _ people are//Nasty about” - Winds (1953)
Nasty
- “That _ Friday when [..] One bubble brained creature said I am loved therefore I am” - Winds (1953)
Pliocene
- “But the _ winds that blow//Round law-court and temple” - Winds (1953)
Boneless
There is no regular rhyme scheme In In Praise of Limestone, which mirrors the irregularity of the _
Limestone landscape
In In Praise of Limestone midway through the poem it shifts from addressing humanity to directing it to a _
Single person
- “When I try to imagine a faultless love […] What I see is the _ landscape” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Limestone
- “The oceanic whisper://I am the solitude that asks and ; that is how I shall set you free” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Promises nothing
- “On our plains there is room for armies to drill; rivers//Wait to be _ “ - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Tamed
- “Come! purred the clays and _” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Gravels
- “How evasive is your humour, how accidental//Your kindest kiss, how permanent is _” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Death
- “Born lucky//Their legs have never encountered the fungi//And _ of the jungle” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Insects
- “Their eyes have never looked into _ space” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Infinite
- “Examine this region//Of short distances and _ places” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Definite
- “A secret system of caves and _” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
Conduits
- “The one landscape that we, _,//Are consistently homesick for” - In Praise of Limestone (1938)
The inconstant ones
In praise of limestone is about “the beauty of mutable, imperfect _ nature,” - James Persoon
Human
In Law Like Love there is no formal scheme or meter however there are perfect rhymes, showing that even non static law can _
Be understood
- “Like love we often weep,//Like love we seldom _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Keep
- “Like love we don’t know where or why,//Like love we can’t compel or _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Fly
- “thinking it absurd//To identify Law with some other _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Word
- “Law is _,//And always the soft idiot softly Me” - Law, Like Love (1939)
We
- “Others say, Law is our Fate;//Others say, Law is our _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
State
- “Law is neither wrong nor right,//Law is only _//Punished by places and by times” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Crimes
- “Law is _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
The Law
- “Law is the sense of the _” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Young
- “Law is the _ of the old” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Wisdom
- “Law, say the _, is the sun” - Law, Like Love (1939)
Gardeners
A yew is a tree which symbolises _
Death
In Refugee Blues the rhyme scheme is _ focussing on constant refrain and rhythmic blues
AAB
- “Dreamed I saw _ with a thousand floors//A thousand windows and a thousand doors” - Refugee Blues (1939)
A building
- “Saw the _ in the trees;//They had no politicians and sang at their ease” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Birds
- “Saw fish swimming as if _,//Only ten feet away, my dear, only ten feet away” - Refugee Blues (1939)
They were free
- “Went down to the harbour and stood upon the _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Quay
- “If we let them in, they will steal our daily _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Bread
- “But we are still _, my dear, but we are still _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Alive
- “If you’ve got no passport you’re officially _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Dead
- “In the village churchyard there grows an old _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Yew
- “Yet there’s no place for us, my _, yet there’s no place for us” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Dear
- “Some are living in mansions, some are living in _” - Refugee Blues (1939)
Holes
As I Walked Out One Evening is in _ form, however not syllabically, rather Auden sticks to three stressed syllables per line
Ballad
- “The clocks had ceased their _, And the deep river ran on” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Chiming
- “And Time will have his _//To-morrow or to-day” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Fancy
- “Time watches from the shadow//And coughs when you would _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Kiss
- “‘O let not Time deceive you,//You cannot _ Time” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Conquer
- “But all the clocks in the city//Began to whirr and _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Chime
- “The years shall run like _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Rabbits
- “I’ll love you till the _//Is folded and hung up to dry” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Ocean
- “I’ll love you//Till China and _ meet” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Africa
- “Under an arch of the railway: ‘Love has no _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Ending
- “And down by the _//I heard a lover sing” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Brimming river
- “The crowds upon the pavement//Were fields of harvest _” - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)
Wheat
The second part of Musee des Beaux arts is in _ form
Octave
Auden starts Musee des Beaux Arts with regular _, however this soon drifts between longer and shorter lines
Pentameter
- “And the expensive delicate ship […] had somewhere to get to and _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Sailed calmly on
- “The white legs disappearing into the green _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Water
- “The sun shone//As _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
It had to
- “But for him it was not an important _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Failure
- “The ploughman may//Have heard the splash, the _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Forsaken cry
- “In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away//Quite leisurely from _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
The Disaster
- “Even the dreadful _ must run its course” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Martyrdom
- “The aged are reverently, passionately waiting//For the _ birth” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Miraculous
- “While someone else is _ or opening a window or just walking dully along” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Eating
- “About suffering they were never wrong, The Old _” - Musee Des Beaux Arts (1938)
Masters
In A Dream every line is perfectly how many syllables long?
6
A Dream uses a half rhyme scheme throughout the three stanzas of what?
ABCDDCA
- “And I, _, felt//Unwanted and went out” - A Dream (1936)
Submissive
- “That you then […] confessed another _” - A Dream (1936)
Love
- “What hidden worm of guilt//Or what _//Am I the victim of” - A Dream (1936)
Malignant doubt
- “Indifferent to those//Who sat with hostile _” - A Dream (1936)
Eyes
- “Our whisper woke no _” - A Dream (1936)
Clocks
- “Were beds, and we in one//In a _ lay” - A Dream (1936)
Fare corner
- “Though the _ is gone,//Its dream still haunts to-day” - A Dream (1936)
Night
In The Quarry the quatrains, regular ABAB rhymes, four beats and _ create a sense of drumming
Tetrameter
The Quarry is written in traditional _ form, invoking an atmosphere of impending war
Ballad
In The Quarry the question and answer could be switched between both a man and a _, changing the meaning
Man
- “Their _ are heavy on the floor//And their eyes are burning” - The Quarry (1934)
Boots
- “No I promised to love you, dear,//But I must be _” - The Quarry (1934)
Leaving
- “Stay with me here!//Were the _ you swore deceiving, deceiving?” - The Quarry (1934)
Vows
- “They have passed the farmyard already, dear//And now they are _” - The Quarry (1934)
Running
- “Why, they are none of them wounded, dear,//None of the _” - The Quarry (1934)
Forces
- “Perhaps a change in their orders, dear. Why are you _?” - The Quarry (1934)
Knelling
- “Only their usual manoeuvres, dear,//Or perhaps a _” - The Quarry (1934)
Warning
- “O what is that light I see _ so clear” - The Quarry (1934)
Flashing
- “Only the scarlet soldiers, dear,//The _” - The Quarry (1934)
Soldiers coming
- “O what is that _ which so thrills the ear” - The Quarry (1934)
Sound
Auden’s rhyme scheme in Lullaby is mostly using _ rhymes, contrasting hugely with the largely regular meter
Slant
In Lullaby Auden mainly uses _ tetrameter to mimic the soothing sound and rhythm sued in Children’s songs
Trochaic
- “Nights of _ let you pass” - Lullaby (1937)
Insult
- “Noons of _ see you fed” - Lullaby (1937)
Dryness
- “Find the _ enough” - Lullaby (1937)
Mortal
- “Beauty, _, vision dies” - Lullaby (1937)
Midnight
- “Among the glaciers and the rocks//The hermit’s _ ecstasy” - Lullaby (1937)
Carnal
- “Soul and _ have no bounds” - Lullaby (1937)
Body
- “Let the living _ lie,//Mortal, guilty but to me//The entirely beautiful” - Lullaby (1937)
Creature
- “the grave//Proves the child _” - Lullaby (1937)
Ephemeral
- “Time and _ burn away//Individual beauty” - Lullaby (1937)
Fevers
- “Lay your sleeping head, my love,//Human on my _” - Lullaby (1937)
Faithless arm
Surgical Ward is a _, the octave conforms however the sestet doesn’t; there is no volta, no rhyme and non-uniform meter
Sonnet
- “Only _ is shared//and anger, and the idea of love” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Happiness
- “And cannot//imagine _” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Isolation
- “And believe//In the common world of the _” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Uninjured
- “Even a scratch we can’t recall when _” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Cured
- “His knowledge of the world is restricted to//the treatment that the _ are giving” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Instruments
- “They are and _; that is all they do” - Surgical Ward (circa 1940)
Suffer
In This Lunar Beauty Auden primarily uses _ (a metrical opposite to iambic) and juxtaposes strong rhymes with slant ones
Trochees
In This Lunar Beauty the _ could signify rising,prominence,setting and birth,life,death
Three part structure
- “Love shall not near//_//Nor sorrow take//His endless look” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
The sweetness here
- “But this was never//A _ endeavour” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Ghost’s
- “For time is _//And the heart’s changes//Where ghost has haunted” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Inches
- “And _ is//The loss of this” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Daytime
- “This like a _//Keeps other time” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
Dream
- “This lunar beauty//Has no _//Is complete and early” - This Lunar Beauty (1930)
History
The rhyme scheme in Roman Wall Blues draws upon the simplicity of rhyming _
Couplets
The purpose of Hadrian’s Wall was to keep an intact _ empire
Roman
Who is the speaker in Roman Wall Blues?
A soldier on Hadrian’s Wall
- “When I’m a _ with only one eye//I shall do nothing but look at the sky” - Roman Wall Blues
Veteran
- “She gave me a ring but I _ it away;//I want my girl and I want my pay” - Roman Wall Blues
Diced
- “Piso’s a _, he worships a fish” - Roman Wall Blues
Christian
- “The _ creeps over the hard grey stone” - Roman Wall Blues
Mist
- “I’m a _ soldier, I don’t know why” - Roman Wall Blues
Wall
Roman Wall Blues was aired as a radio play under the name Hadrian’s Wall in _
1937
- “Over the heather the wet wind blows,//I’ve lice in my tunic and a cold in my _” - Roman Wall Blues
Nose
Post 1932 Auden could make connections between “individual guilts and pleasures and the crisis that was eating away at _” - Hamilton
European Civilization
How many syllables does Auden strictly use in the second stanza of The Letter (1928)?
8
How many syllables does Auden strictly use in the first stanza of The Letter (1928)?
9
- “I, decent with the _, move//Different or with a different love” - The Letter (1928)
Season
- “If love not seldom has received//An unjust answer, was _” - The Letter (1928)
Deceived
- “Your _ comes, speaking as you,//Speaking of much, but not to come” - The Letter (1928)
Letter
- “Thought warmed to _ through and through” - The Letter (1928)
Evening
- “Shall see, shall pass, as we have _” - The Letter (1928)
Seen
- “Love’s worn _ re-begun” - The Letter (1928)
Circuit
- “Cry out against the storm, and found//The year’s _ a completed round” - The Letter (1928)
Arc
- “From the very first coming down//Into a new _ with a frown” - The Letter (1928)
Valley
The Unknown Citizen uses mostly _ as a meter
Anapest
The Unknown Citizen has rhyme schemes, however they are irregular and _
Interwoven
During the late 1930s while other poets to be shifting to _ verse, Auden sticks with rhyme
Unrhymed