The speaker expresses his disgust with "the windiest (*) militant trash / Important Persons shout" and asserts that "What mad Nijinsky wrote / About Diaghilev / Is true of the normal heart".
This poem asks "Who can live for long / In a euphoric dream" in its fourth stanza. It later describes people who "wake / to resume their compulsory game" and other people who vow "I will be true to the wife / I'll concentrate more on my work" before asking "Who can release them now?" It asks "what huge imago made / a psychopathic god" before invoking "Exiled Thucydides". The speaker expresses his disgust with "the windiest (*) militant trash / Important Persons shout" and asserts that "What mad Nijinsky wrote / About Diaghilev / Is true of the normal heart". Its penultimate stanza notes that "There is no such thing as the State / And no one exists alone" before concluding "We must love one another or die." For 10 points, identify this poem written "in one of the dives / on Fifty-Second Street" by W.H. Auden, titled for the date on which Germany invaded Poland.
This poem asks "Who can live for long / In a euphoric dream" in its fourth stanza.
“{September} 1, 1939”