Written as WWII began... Exiled Thucydides knew/All that a speech can say/About Democracy,/And what dictators do,/The elderly rubbish they talk/To an apathetic grave; Analysed all in his book, The enlightenment driven away, The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.
READING: W.H. Auden: September 1, 1939
READING: W.H. Auden: September 1, 1939
READING: W.H. Auden: September 1, 1939
Written as WWII began... Exiled Thucydides knew/All that a speech can say/About Democracy,/And what dictators do,/The elderly rubbish they talk/To an apathetic grave; Analysed all in his book, The enlightenment driven away, The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.