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Analysis Of WH Auden's Poem: Eternal Love
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W.H. Auden's poem about the contrast between "eternal love" and the
impersonal march of time shows the irrationality of people in love, and the
blind, callous nature of time, through the use of language and imagery.
The lover's attitude is one of pleasant optimism. He is filled
with poetic though ....
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....o the passage of
the lovers. They have succumbed as well to the ravages of time, and no
amount of tears may bring them, nor anything else, back. Perhaps the most
widely known passage on the inviolability of the past is:
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all you Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
It sums up quite well the idea of this poem which, at the end, sees
even the clocks fall silent.
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