Author Topic: A bit of poetry... (Read 1807 times)

oldspice · « **on:** May 13, 2005, 08:08:18 am »

This verse in W H Auden's As I walked out one Evening struck me as very fitting just now:

In headaches and in worry

Vaguely life leaks away

And time will have his fancy

To-morrow or to-day.

goldencup · « **Reply #1 on:** May 13, 2005, 07:30:46 pm »

Very poignant

loulou · « **Reply #2 on:** May 13, 2005, 07:40:46 pm »

What does it mean?

oldspice · « **Reply #3 on:** May 13, 2005, 07:51:23 pm »

I think it means that anxiety is ever-present and we are always looking for an end to it but whilst we are doing so life is slipping by and time will take us when it suits him/her.

goldencup · « **Reply #4 on:** May 13, 2005, 07:52:36 pm »

In other words, life's too short to worry about most things..... but we do it anyway!

Bunny · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2005, 10:17:18 am »

Some of WH Auden's poetry is quite depressing. He wrote Stop All The Clocks about a lover who had died and also wrote a peom about refugees.

I think the poem As I Walked Out One Evening was written at a difficult time in the poet's life - he was homosexual when it was illegal and deeply affected by war - of course, artisitic types are intensely sensitive.

loulou · « **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2005, 03:12:20 pm »

Thanks oldspice and goldencup for explaining.

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Author Topic: A bit of poetry... (Read 1807 times)