AUDEN

Auden's early poetic voice adopts a detached perspective from which it can provide an objective diagnosis of the situation; the addressee is invited to a detached observation of reality where the meaningless detail becames relevant as in the poem "Consider", and warned against selfdeception "As I Walked Out One Evening". In the poem "Consider" it is noticeable a strong poetic voice because it is speaking us in imperative. The poetic voice is making a command "Consider this in our time"(l.1). It adopts a detached non human perspective "As the hawk sees it or the helmeted airman" ( This line reminds to Eliots Prelude/ something appears suddenly). The poetic voice is saying to abandon yourselves from mans faith. The poem reveals instabilities of the tone which came from innumerable number of conceals. Like those old flyers "the hawk" and "the helmeted airman" they cannot see anything but then "the clouds rift suddenly"(l.2) and something appeared like in the Romantic poems. The first element that appears is a cigarette.It seems meaningful and irrelevant fot the garden party going on. Audens uses so many ellipsis and the definite article as well as abstract nouns make us to stay with anxiety aqnd mystery. So, "cigarette smouldering on a border" could signify the border of a garden or a political boundary. There is also an allusion to the harmony of the cosmos"and costellated"(l.10), in this party there is no harmony, the idea of the insufficiency of unity. The garden party is divided into two diferent spheres of the social class: upper class people dressed in fur and in uniforms maybe they are soldiers; and the lower class formed by farmers and his dogs as in a distant, physical sphere making a strong contrast. In the rest of the poem, the poetic voice adresses to a sort of enemy"supreme antagonist"(l.13) that is dangerous. But, the sense of danger came from and abstract source. It is associated with the death wish and it has to due with the language of the psychoanalysis. The structure of the poem is tripartite. After the hidden implications of the first stanza with the view of the contemporany society in our time, the second stanza responds to the evocation of the modern experience with the insinuation of myth. The third completes the lyric by a combination of the mythic and the modern, where the mythic retains a crucial vestigial role in shaping the collective imagination. In the poem " As I walked out one evening" speaks to nature of time as it relates to the human condition. The poem consists of three separate speakers: the lovers, the clocks and the narrator. Each speaker represents a different measure and attitude towards time. The lovers song paints time to be conquerable and ignorable. The soliloquy of the clocks demonstrates time as a product of society, there to keep its subjects in line, and ultimately a ruling force. Finally, the narrator

speaks of love as being outside of both of these things. Time is a constant flow than brings change and opportunity, and any claim to deny or control it is an illusion. The poem is divided into three parts. The first one, consisting on a first person poetic voice that was walking down Bristol and then he/She sees a couple, and one of the lovers became to sing" I heard a lover sing". The second one, is the song sang by the lover and it is viewed as a fairly positive, if not somewhat exaggerated, proclamation of love. The song of the lover demonstrates romantic idealism. The lover insists that their love exists outside of time, or rather in defiance of it. Finally, the third part belong to the power of time and it is written as if they were clocks using the alliteration. Auden get the rhythm and sound of a clock. The song of the lover demonstrates romantic idealism. The lover insists that their love exists outside of time, or rather in defiance of it. The way he speaks is excesive" Ill love you, dear, Ill love you..." This song declares the somewhat common and highly romanticized notion that love conquers all. It is a force unaffected by and stronger than the traditional rules of the world like time or physical laws. He promise the eternal love knowing that he is a temporal human being. Just as the lovers song reaches the peak of its impossible claims, all the clocks in the city/ Began to whir and chime. The speaker introduces a voice that warns of self-deception" Let time not deceive you, You cannot conquer Time". The poem also makes use of unconventional capitalization. In the speech of the clocks, Time and Justice are treated as names, personifying the concepts. Time interrupts the moment of union of the lovers Time watches from the shadow / And coughs when you would kiss Time, in this representation, is a cruel master that remind you of your inability to defeat it. You may love truly and deeply, but you are still subject to Time. Furthermore, that it interrupts a kiss demonstrates that it is commonplace occurrence that Time conquers love. Auden uses images of nature to illustrate the true passage of time. In the first stanza, he says The crowds upon the pavement / Were fields of harvest wheat . Harvest, in this case, is key. The harvest indicates the end of the growing season, and so a life with an end in sight. . Similarly, in Into many a green valley / Drifts the appalling snow the snow indicates the ending of a season. Anybody can scape the death and the running of time "the clocks has ceased their chiming,/ And the deep river ran on" a clear indication that time continues to pass despite the absence of time personified. The poem as a whole could quite easily be remembered through these two lines as a summury of the poem. In Auden's later period, the speakers poetic intervention aims at investing daily actions with meaning and invites the blessing of existence as in the poem " Precious Five". In the poem " Precious five" the poetic voice is adressing to the five senses. It is noticeable that

in the fisrt stanza something has change. There is a different between the present and the past " The present moment well/ With grand scents of the past". The poetic voice goes from one sense to another. Firstly, it adresses to the nose. Then, to the mouth, ears, hands, eyes and finally to the tongue. This strong poetic voice is giving moral advices using imperatives as " Be patient","Be modest", "Be civil" and in the final stanza " Be happy, precious five". The poetic voice is using here a categorical imperative to express that may be no reason for happiness. Nevertheless, You are asked to think in love, alcohol or gold. These are souces to achieve happiness. But, there is also an intelectual aspect of the mind " But do as you are told". This sentence implie that I do what you only could perceived. In the contemporany world, there are reasons to curse instead of blessing the existence.