W.H. Auden reads 'The Unknown Citizen'

W.H. Auden reads his 1939 poem 'The Unknown Citizen'

[@aelialicinia]

TS Elliot's "The Hollow Men" - 'This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper. the world ends not with a bang but a whisper.'

[@VETHAS-PLT]

In tears.....what a prophecy.....

[@johnfoster3013]

Auden evokes in me the same feelings as I got from Orwell's 1984 with a dash of Marx added to the mix.

[@ree9487]

That's what I thought as well
Same themes

[@pattheman5159]

brillant poem

[@Yusukeseru]

Hi, thanks for the upload of this poem!

[@ginahanlon1815]

My stepfather. But which one?

[@dgil3704]

So Auden was the first to identify the archetype of the normie

[@rajendranadvocatenotary226]

dramatic irony engraved..