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To Conform or not to Conform; do we really have a Choice!
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Christine Stead Adam Beardsworth English 1080 October 28, 2004 To Conform or not to Conform; do we really have a Choice! W. H. Auden's "The unknown Citizen" and Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour" are an expressions of the way they perceive the world. Both poets are portraying there thoughts on the political and social structures of society and seem to feel a great sense of loss, even anger at the way things are. In Auden's "Unknown Citizen" there is a certain amount of irony and satire throughout. In the title; not only does the reader not know the unknown citizen's name, this man seems to be unknown even to the people that are looking at him closely. As for "The Skunk Hour," the theme seems to be the corruption of values that is now so widely accepted. In Auden's eulogy style poem, "The Unknown Citizen," he uses satire through irony...
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