This poem says that (*) "exiled Thucydides (thu-SID-id-ees) knew all that a speech can say about Democracy" before dismissing "the windiest militant trash."
This poem's author later disavowed it as "trash" and altered its meaning by changing "or" to "and" in its most famous line. This poem's narrator wants to "undo the folded lie" of the "sensual man-in-the-street." This poem's narrator highlights "ironic points of light wherever the Just exchange their messages" and describes himself as "Eros" and "dust." This poem says that (*) "exiled Thucydides (thu-SID-id-ees) knew all that a speech can say about Democracy" before dismissing "the windiest militant trash." This poem describes its audience as "children afraid of the night who have never been happy or good." This poem's narrator sits "in one of the dives / on Fifty-second Street / Uncertain and afraid" and concludes "We must love one another or die." For 10 points, name this W. H. Auden poem named for the date World War II began.
This poem's author later disavowed it as "trash" and altered its meaning by changing "or" to "and" in its most famous line.
“September 1, 1939”