This poet asked, "How should we like it were stars to burn with a passion for us we could not return?"in his poem "The More Loving One." He depicted "an artificial wilderness and a sky like lead" on anobject whose viewer expected to see "marble well-governed cities" and "vines and olive trees." In anotherpoem, he wrote that we are "children afraid of the night who have never been happy or good," noting,"Those to whom evil is done do evil in return." This poet wrote of how "the torturer's horse scratches itsinnocent behind on a tree" in a poem opening, "About suffering they were never wrong, the old Masters."For 10 points, name this British poet of "The Shield of Achilles," "September 1, 1939
This poet asked, "How should we like it were stars to burn with a passion for us we could not return?"in his poem "The More Loving One." He depicted "an artificial wilderness and a sky like lead" on anobject whose viewer expected to see "marble well-governed cities" and "vines and olive trees." In anotherpoem, he wrote that we are "children afraid of the night who have never been happy or good," noting,"Those to whom evil is done do evil in return." This poet wrote of how "the torturer's horse scratches itsinnocent behind on a tree" in a poem opening, "About suffering they were never wrong, the old Masters."For 10 points, name this British poet of "The Shield of Achilles," "September 1, 1939," and "Musee desBeaux Arts."
This poet asked, "How should we like it were stars to burn with a passion for us we could not return?"in his poem "The More Loving One."
W. H. Auden