The narrator sees "ironic points of light" that "flash out," and determines that he is "composed like them of Eros and Dust" and therefore can "show an affirming flame."
The narrator of this poem references what "is true of the normal heart" before stating "music must always play" for the "faces along the bar." The speaker claims "all I have is a voice to undo the folded lie," and this poem notes that "blind skyscrapers" "proclaim the strength of Collective Man." The narrator sees "ironic points of light" that "flash out," and determines that he is "composed like them of Eros and Dust" and therefore can "show an affirming flame." In this poem the speaker describes how the "clever hopes expire of a low dishonest decade." This poem begins "I sit in one of the dives on Fifty-second Street," and it argues "we must love one another or die." For 10 points, name this poem about the "international wrong" committed by "a psychopathic god" on the title date, by W. H. Auden.
The narrator of this poem references what "is true of the normal heart" before stating "music must always play" for the "faces along the bar."
"September 1, 1939"