Re: [Leica] Auden's verse with admiration.

[Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>]

"Wang, Albert" wrote:
> 
> That's definitely a very prophetic verse... dang I underestimated Auden's
> genius.
> 
> --- tm <leicar8@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I sit in one of the dives
> > On Fifty-second Street
> > Uncertain and afraid
> > As the clever hopes expire
> > Of a low dishonest decade;
> > Waves of anger and fear
> > Circulate over the bright
> > And darkened lands of the earth,
> > Obsessing our private lives;
> > The unmentionable odour of death
> > Offends the September night
> >
> >
> > - W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939.
> >
I underestimated the power and beauty of poetry.

Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon
USA

http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/