This year marked the 80th anniversary of September 1, 1939 , the poem that WH Auden wrote in the first weeks of World War II. Auden was in New York when German tanks entered Poland, and introduces himself to the poem sitting in a Manhattan slum, listening to the ominous news on the radio. Far from feeling outrage or patriotism, the poet confesses "insecure and scared / while the high hopes die / of a low decade and d

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