Noting that "exiled Thucydides knew all that a speech can say about Democracy and what dictators do," the narrator laments "the enlightenment driven away" in the third stanza, while in the second he addresses the "accurate scholarship" that "can unearth the whole offence from Luther until now that has driven a culture mad."
In its penultimate section, the poet claims that all he has "is a voice to undo the folded lie.. and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky." Noting that "exiled Thucydides knew all that a speech can say about Democracy and what dictators do," the narrator laments "the enlightenment driven away" in the third stanza, while in the second he addresses the "accurate scholarship" that "can unearth the whole offence from Luther until now that has driven a culture mad." Placing himself in "one of the dives on fifty-second street... as the clever hopes expire of a low dishonest decade," the "unmentionable odor of death" offends the titular night. Holding that "we must love one another or die," for ten points, identify this W.H. Auden poem whose title refers to the date on which World War II began.
In its penultimate section, the poet claims that all he has "is a voice to undo the folded lie.. and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky."
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