This author of "The Fall of Rome" described how "when he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, /
This author mentioned "an unimportant clerk" who writes "I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK" on a "pink official form" in a poem that ends with "vast / herds of reindeer moving across / Miles and miles of golden moss, / Silently and very fast." A poem by this author cuts between a classical scene of "White flower-garlanded heifers, / Libation and sacrifice," and a stark modern setting of "barbed wire enclosing an arbitrary spot / Where bored officials lounged (one cracked a joke)." This author of "The Fall of Rome" described how "when he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, / And when he cried the little children died in the streets" in his "Epitaph of a Tyrant." He wrote that "Exiled Thucydides knew / All that a speech can say / About Democracy" in a poem that describes powerless "dense commuters" repeating meaningless vows, and proclaims that "We must love one another or die." For 10 points, name this English poet of "September 1, 1939."
This author mentioned "an unimportant clerk" who writes "I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK" on a "pink official form" in a poem that ends with "vast / herds of reindeer moving across / Miles and miles of golden moss, / Silently and very fast."
W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden] &lt;Non-Epic Poetry&gt; CAN BE READ TO ANYONE