The speaker of this poem describes humanity as "children afraid of the night who have never beenhappy or good" and asks, "Who can live for long in a euphoric dream?" after mentioning "blindskyscrapers".
The speaker of this poem describes humanity as "children afraid of the night who have never beenhappy or good" and asks, "Who can live for long in a euphoric dream?" after mentioning "blindskyscrapers". This poem makes reference to "exiled Thucydides", who "knew all that a speech can sayabout democracy", and it declares a quotation about Diaghilev by Nijinsky to be universal. Its speakerposits that "the windiest militant trash" is not as crude as the normal human wish: "not universal love,but to be loved alone". It begins as the speaker sits in one of "the dives on Fifty-Second street", andfamously proclaims, "We must love one another or die". For 10 points, name this W. H. Auden poem,titled for the day on which World War II began.
The speaker of this poem describes humanity as "children afraid of the night who have never beenhappy or good" and asks, "Who can live for long in a euphoric dream?" after mentioning "blindskyscrapers".
"September 1, 1939"