September 1 1939

W. H. Audens September 1, 1939 is an outpouring of disapproval and concern over the humans current political state of affairs, as well as a personal manifesto of sorts. The loud verbalizer rails against each forms of role he believes to be corrupt. The entire poem serves as a vehicle for the vocalizer to address the lies he perceives propagated by all types of government and law enforcement, ending with his wish to be a beacon of hope and truth in the instance of the despair a world with such grave failures elicits. The speakers ideas, like those of the authority he denounces, seem at prototypal glance noble and truthful, only when upon further examination locate fraught with self-contradiction. Although he claims to be a rare immune carrier of bright truth in a world of dark, widespread lies, the speaker lies to himself and readers, the very public he is trying to protect. The speaker denounces the ruling elite and its power to twist the truth, but hypocritically takes on a role of corrupt poetic authority in stage to do so. Like those in power, the speaker possesses the ability to twist facts (or neutral circumstances portrayed as facts) into a potentially convincing support of his case.

The speaker complains that the government fools people into believing their working lives are the ethical lifetime (68) in the seventh stanza, insinuating that it is in fact full of sullen promises the state craps to the people and the latter in turn make to themselves. In the fifth stanza, he claims that all of our actions and possessions are to keep back us from realizing we are [c]hildren afraid of the night / [w]ho have never been happy or good (55), without providing any more conclusion or explanation. Like those in power, the speaker is relating his completely unobjective message, potentially damaging message to the public as a form of absolute truth. The speakers declarations are not only(prenominal) subjective views of authority posing as pure truth, but are also too vague to provide becoming support for the... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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