Wednesday 5 December 2012

W.H. Auden Poems Selected by John Fuller


W.H. Auden Poems Selected by John Fuller

1)      Did you notice any recurring themes or subjects within the collection?
2)      What did you think of the selection of poems that John Fuller made? 
3)      Are any of the themes and topics that Auden writes about relevant to what is going on in the world now?
4)      Who do you think the he is in “Argument Part III? Is it one person, more than one person, God?
5)      Did you think there was a cloaked meaning in the poem “The Detective”?
6)      Did you notice any particular forms or rhyme schemes?
7)      “Funeral Blues” was made popular by the film “Four Weddings and a Funeral” – do you think it merits the excitement? How do you think it stands up as an elegy to lost love?
8)      What was your favourite/least favourite poem? Why?
9)      What does the Sphinx stand for in the poem “Sphinx”?
10)  Themes of the book are loss, time passing, war, death – did you feel that Auden dealt with these themes effectively?
11)  Auden has been called “the first post-modern poet – would you agree with this statement? What is post-modern about his work?