For 10 points, name this poet of "The Shield of Achilles", "In Memory of W.B. Yeats", and "September 1, 1939".
This poet wrote of a boy "who'd never heard / Of any world in which promises were kept, / Or one could weep because another wept". This author wrote that "all the instruments agree the day of his death was a dark cold day" in a poem eulogizing a fellow poet. One poem by him features the refrain: "She looked over his shoulder". Another poem by this author talks of "dense (*) commuters" who come "from the conservative dark into the ethical life", and "ironic points of light" that "flash out wherever the Just exchange their messages". That poem begins "in one of the dives on Fifty-Second Street" and says: "we must love one another or die". For 10 points, name this poet of "The Shield of Achilles", "In Memory of W.B. Yeats", and "September 1, 1939".
This poet wrote of a boy "who'd never heard / Of any world in which promises were kept, /
W.H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]