This poem imagines people saying "I'll concentrate more on my work" before asking "Who can speak for the dumb?" The speaker o
This poem imagines people saying "I'll concentrate more on my work" before asking "Who can speak for the dumb?" The speaker of this poem states that he is made of "Eros and dust." This poem claims that "accurate scholarship" can determine "what huge imago made a psychopathic God," and it mentions "what mad Nijinsky wrote about Diaghilev." The author of this poem wishes to "show an affirming flame," and he later came to dislike its line "We must love one another or die." For 10 points, name this poem beginning, "I sit in one of the dives on Fifty-second Street, uncertain and afraid," which was written by W. H. Auden and titled for the first day of World War II.
This poem imagines people saying "I'll concentrate more on my work" before asking "Who can speak for the dumb?"
"September 1, 1939"