Notes on Drowning: Eliot and Auden

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Notes on Drowning: Eliot and Auden HUM 2213: British and American Literature II Spring 2013 Dr. Perdigao January 30-February 1, 2013

About Suffering “Prufrock” “Musée des Beaux Arts” Notion of suffering, human condition Ideas about civilization, between Yeats, Eliot, Auden, extending beyond Ireland, England, America Insiders/outsiders Woodrow Wilson’s idea of a war to end all wars but inevitability of WWII Idea of politics, aesthetics, western civilization as a whole Immediacy of experience, impersonality

Falling http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/philolog/2005/11/ekphrasis_ovid_in_pieter_breug.html

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Born in York, England; educated at Christ Church, Oxford Moved to U.S. in 1939, became an American citizen in 1946 “from T. S. Eliot he took a conversational and ironic tone, an acute inspection of cultural decay” (Greenblatt 2421) Great Depression, Waste Land, draws on Freud and Marx; England as “nation of neurotic invalids, now as the victim of an antiquated economic system” (2421) Rejection of Yeats’ notion of poetry as transcendent, redemptive, the prophetic role of poetry

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