Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] Auden's verse with admiration.
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:19:04 -0700
References: <4D2DC4211C50D311A64C0008C75D6BC507EDE3AD@m07.ibx.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/

Replies: Reply from "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@home.com> (Re: [Leica] Auden's verse with admiration.)
In reply to: Message from "Wang, Albert" <Albert.Wang@ibx.com> ([Leica] Auden's verse with admiration.)