Word: auden
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...many Europeans these days, the charmless fate of America feels very much like what the poet W.H. Auden described as the state of most poets' output: good ideas, badly executed. Wealthy, work-obsessed, gobbling down small, hurried pleasures in cholesterol-laden chunks as we contemplate the risings and fallings of the Dow, we tend to forget that charm, as Camus observed in The Fall, can provide us with "a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question...
...Auden once defined poetry as news that stays news. The implication is that we're all in the business of the ephemeral. And we are. But that doesn't mean we ought not try to cover news that stays news, and by that I don't mean poetry but stories that concern people at the Piggly Wiggly, stories that have real meaning for the way people live their lives. And some of them may even come from Washington...
Following the match, Coach Wilson expressed his pleasure at the team's accomplishment of his first two goals, citing senior outside hitter Auden Velasquez and senior Co-Captain Justin Micomonaco as having passed well and also acknowledging the latter's defensive work (9 digs). As for his third objective, however, Coach Wilson noted that the team struggled close to the antenna. He was, though, encouraged by the team's comeback victory in the third game...
...will also teach us how to stuff a banana with rabbit, and someone will announce that in the next half-hour we'll talk about a new cure for Parkinson's disease..."plus, live from the plaza--Jewel!" That's history for you. That's Bruegel's Icarus, as Auden pointed out in his poem on the painting; sensational events mingle with the run-of-the-mill till you cannot discern the amazing from the amazing...
Such notions of activist poetry evolved with a tumultuous life, marked with grave personal, artistic and political decisions. Rich's early poetry, though elegant, is politically lackluster, drawing thematically and stylistically on the works of poets like Yeats, Frost and Auden. Her "angrier" later works emerged from a vibrant background of marriage, family, 1960's civil rights activism, anti-Vietnam War protests, an emergent women's movement and personal decisions about sexuality and liberation...