This poet repeats the lines, "What instruments we have agree / the day of his death was a dark cold day" in a the first stanza of a poem that implores the subject to "teach the free man how to praise" and begins by stating, "He disappeared in the dead of winter." The speaker asks "Was he free? Was he happy?" about the title figure of a poem who "was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be / One against whom there was no official complaint." This author of "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" asserts "about suffering they were never wrong / The old masters" in a poem about Breughel's The Fall of Icarus titled "Musee des Beaux Arts." For 10 points, name this British poet who wrote "The Unknown Citizen " and "The Age of Anxiety."
This poet repeats the lines, "What instruments we have agree / the day of his death was a dark cold day" in a the first stanza of a poem that implores the subject to "teach the free man how to praise" and begins by stating, "He disappeared in the dead of winter." The speaker asks "Was he free? Was he happy?" about the title figure of a poem who "was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be / One against whom there was no official complaint." This author of "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" asserts "about suffering they were never wrong / The old masters" in a poem about Breughel's The Fall of Icarus titled "Musee des Beaux Arts." For 10 points, name this British poet who wrote "The Unknown Citizen " and "The Age of Anxiety."
This poet repeats the lines, "What instruments we have agree / the day of his death was a dark cold day" in a the first stanza of a poem that implores the subject to "teach the free man how to praise" and begins by stating, "He disappeared in the dead of winter.
Wystan Hugh Auden