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"The Unknown Citizen"
Poem Review # 73751
"The Unknown Citizen"
This paper explains W. H. Auden's poem "The Unknown Citizen."
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages) |
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MLA | 2004
Paper Summary:
This paper reviews W. H. Auden's poem "The Unknown Citizen." The paper explains how the poem encourages the individual to question authority and live outside the norms in order to avoid an anonymous existence known only through statistics. The paper also explains the poetic devices in the poem.From the Paper:
"W. H. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen" provides a bureaucratic i.e. statistical account of an unknown male whose marble monument reads JS M. The main theme of the poem is that the deceased lived a life so by the book that he is virtually unknowable other than in a statistical or clinical manner."More papers on "The Unknown Citizen":
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APA Citation:
"The Unknown Citizen" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 10, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Poem-Review-The-Unknown-Citizen/73751
MLA Citation:
""The Unknown Citizen"" 15 January 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Poem-Review-The-Unknown-Citizen/73751>
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