Essays on W.H. Auden

My reaction to this poem was that it was jarring for three reasons. It was jarring in that it seemed to contradict itself. Second, the rhyme scheme was regular in some parts and seemed irregular in others due to the fact that it kept changing. The rhythm of the poem was also jarring because it went along smoothly in sections then seemed to break up especially in the longer lines. First, the poem established the conformity to society in the first five lines then hints at rebellion with “Except for the War” in line 6. Later, in line ...

W.H. Auden's poem "Say the City Has Ten Million Souls,"

ABSTRACT Analysis of the Auden's (1939) poem, "Say This city Has Ten Million Souls" provides the opportunity for connecting the social precepts of place and displacement offered by Aschcroft et al (1989) for explaining the plight of the refugee as marginalized by the host society. In doing so, the poem becomes a lens for understanding the use of Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis Model for assessing the three dimension of literature. The outcome of the following academic discussion provides a tapestry of the psychological, emotional, and social, challenges of the human ...

Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams:

- The Vagabond - Let Beauty Awake - The Roadside Fire - Youth and Love - In Dreams - The Infinite Shining Heavens - Whither Must I Wander - Bright is the Ring of Words - I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope

Christian Nova: baritone

Frank Garvey: piano Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of my favourite composers and his Songs of Travel is one of those evergreen works which you return to time and time again. The interpretation by Christian Nova and Frank Garvey was particularly enticing with the diverse ...