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16396284 No.16396284 [Reply] [Original]

Redpill me on Auden

>> No.16396463

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>> No.16396548

a fine poet, formally interesting, and he always strikes me when I read him as supremely humane—from his socialist iteration to his later christianity

I've always loved his poem "Moon Landing"
https://allpoetry.com/Moon-landing

>> No.16397079

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>> No.16397266

>>16396284
Would love to just sit a table listening to him talk with Philip Larkin.

>> No.16397354

>>16397266
Lol they would've hated eachother.

>> No.16397363

>>16397354
That’s the point. Similar to Gombrowicz and Borges meeting talking at dinner. Borges infuriated Gombrowicz so much so that Gombrowicz sperged out and dedicated an entire character in his novel to Borges where the character is a charlatan.

>> No.16397409

>>16397363
Kek any source? I would have guessed it would occur the other way around, Witoldo pissing of Georgie.

>> No.16397414

>>16397363
Which novel btw? I've only read Ferdydurke and some of his diary.

>> No.16397430

>>16396548
excellent poem, this is the kind of poetry I love

>> No.16397829
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i know it isn't very good, but i recently made (started making, never finished) this thing. the words are a passage from Auden's 'the fall of rome' - which i found quite fitting (the scary literalness of "flu-infected cities".. ) in the current state of things

i'd also like to mention that this is one of the poems he wrote during his stays in ischia, because - while I wouldn't call Auden one of my favourite poets - his relationship to ischia and southern Italy in general (see 'goodbye to mezzogiorno'), and the sensibility through which he recounts it, has always touched me. i was born and raised quite close to ischia, and now live in Auden's "gothic, pallid North", so my experience is quite opposite to his, yet contrastingly similar.
and i can see him admiring the same Mt Vesuvius which I've admired many times, thinking about Pompeii and Rome's grandeur and Rome's decadence, and about his North, its grandeur and its decadence; and i imagine the chirping careless birds he heard, and i imagine hearing those same birds carelessly chirping the next time i'm home, regardless of where my other certainties will have ended up in the meantime..

>> No.16397930

>>16396284
I'm amazed that lit doesn't bring up his poem on Melville.

Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table,
And we are introduced to Goodness every day,
Even in drawing-rooms among a crowd of faults;
He has a name like Billy and is almost perfect,
But wears a stammer like a decoration:

>> No.16397957

>>16396284
Based OP. Shame that he never gets brought up here, I just started Selected Poems and it's quite good, if oblique, but apparently his poems became more clear as he progressed

>> No.16397973

>>16397409
>>16397414
> The poet Carlo Mastronardi introduces Gombrowicz to Victoria and Silvina Ocampo and the group of writers associated with the journal Sur.
> Witold Gombrowicz meets Jorge Luis Borges, but the two men do not get on well at all. The scene of their meeting is described in Gombrowicz’s Trans-Atlantyk.
https://witoldgombrowicz.com/en/wgbio/argentina-1939-1964/the-glory-and-misery-of-exile

>> No.16398686

>>16396284
Gross personal hygiene apparently