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Stephen J. Whitfield, « A Poet Illumines the Pandemic », Revue LISA / LISA e-journal, ID : 10.4000/lisa.12683
In homage to Dr. Denis Mukwege A Poet Illumines the Pandemic The title of W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” might seem to require that this poem be time-bound rather than timeless. He composed it at the end of what the first stanza calls “a low dishonest decade,” when the ambitions of two murderous versions of totalitarianism seemed to have advanced unimpeded. Whether stemming from Berlin or from Moscow, the “waves of anger and fear” were threatening to engulf democracies like Fran...