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WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN
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By Jennifer Ryan
This Website is for Educational reasons only , I hope you enjoy it.
W.H. Auden also known as, Wystan Hugh Auden, was born in 1907 in York England. Auden is a poet whom critics cannot fit him in “one kind or the other” class of poets (Wright,
13).
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Wystan went through a career spanning 2 continents, many a religions, and has
gone from different types of loyalties to vast differences in character choice (Wright, 17).
Auden has always been a poet of personal choice, he has an eclectic style that is ever changing and always revolutionizing. Since the exciting debut of Auden’s work in the 1930’s, he works to the
beat of his own drum, and works with his own internal laws. The greatness of
Auden has yet to be figured out, but is admired by many; proof has come to his defense that he is one of the most appreciated
poets of him time.
If you would like to see more pictures of Auden, please feel free to click on this site. There are multiple pictures of him.
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Auden was an intelligent,
timid, and shy man, His voice conquered English poetry in the mid 1900’s. Auden's poetry depicted “the revolutionary
modernism of Eliot, Yeats, and Lawrence quaint and antique.” His poetry
was very opposite from confessional poetry that that was apparent in the end of his lifetime; his verse was smooth and generally
aimed at what was going on during the times, and of public concern. Auden stared into the eyes of the present, and its violence,
political happenings, ethical problems (Timberg). Auden seemed to be always struggling with the inequality of the world around
him. Auden's body eventually falls under the sprain of a lifetime’s worth of stress, he depends on strong drinks, and
becomes this susceptible child turned into a “doomed, self-pitying old man” (Timberg).
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The out of the ordinary impersonality
of W.H. Auden always gives his poetry, even when he shows the deepest insight into the individual’s heart, an atmosphere
of peculiarity and idiosyncrasy; it was this to that made him seem out of the ordinary to his generation, to his social group
(Spears, 26). Auden’s work was always seen as baffling and confusing. His work is very much appreciated but little understood a lot like most of Auden’s
work. Auden was a poet that was, dry, and interpersonal and his writing in the
thirties and on was his voice of boldness. With Auden’s work, the author
depicts that it is tedious to find meanings; and with the Orators, many have almost
found the key to make them clear, to interconnect them. But, you can never get
to close before you are too far again (Boly).
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