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...climactic midnight cemetery scene and, eventually, to an insane asylum. Along the way stops are made in a brothel owned by Mother Goose and at Tom’s wedding to Baba the Turk (Sofia M. Selowsky ’12), London’s most renowned bearded lady.While Auden??s libretto for the most part lacked the moroseness so typical of other renderings of the Faust legend, it stayed true to the deeply introspective nature of the story. Auden??s poetic mastery enabled the libretto to flourish where so many other English writers have failed?...
...said it was especially helpful that they were able to retain the libretto in its native language and maintain the integrity of the plot and character development.“The characters are archetypes, but they are not limited to those conventions particularly because of Auden??s poetry,” she said. “They never say anything that sounds generic. Everything they say is interesting.”The basic plot line traces the downfall of the protagonist Tom Rakewell (James B. Onstad ’09), who leaves his sweetheart, Anne Trulove...
...done it.” Analyzing and then reading works by poets such as John Keats, Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth and Lord Alfred Tennyson, Abrams emphasized the aural aspects of the works, which he said are often often lost when poems are read silently. In W.H. Auden??s “On This Island,” Abrahms read aloud the line, “The leaping light for your delight discovers,” and then explained how the repeated syllable brings back the preternatural delight a baby takes in repeating newly learned sounds, such...
...visit the shop and to meet the owner Gordon Cairnie. He was purported to have hosted the first painting exhibition of e.e. cummings, to have stocked copies of the first printing of Ulysses smuggled in under the coats of various customers and, much later, to stock copies of W.H. Auden??s “Platonic Blow...
Elizabeth L.D. Carpenter, a student from the Business School, delivered the Graduate English Address. Her speech, entitled “Auden and the Little Things,” was based on W.H. Auden??s poem “September...