![]() ![]() Eliot didn’t consider it a ‘poem’ as such, but it clearly shows the Churchillian spirit of defending Britain’s islands during a time of war.Īlthough not one of his best-known poems of the 1930s, ‘On This Island’ shows Auden’s descriptive power in full flow as he adopts the voice of an imagined speaker, addressing what almost seem to be a group of conquering questing heroes as they alight upon the shore of some island (Britain, maybe?). The American lyric poet Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) often wrote about America and in particular, New York here, she writes about visiting Coney Island, known for its pleasures and amusements, out of season:Īs Eliot himself acknowledged, this poem was written for a very specific purpose: to accompany an exhibition of photographs of British war-work in New York in 1940. ‘Past noon, past noon, two sultry hours,’įollow the link above to read the full, longer poem. Sweetened the dust with a woodland smell, ![]()
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