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Does Auden's early poetry have any heroes or are all his heroes flawed or failed?
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Does Auden's early poetry have any heroes or are all his heroes flawed or failed? The 1930s was a decade composed of the Great Depression, Fascism, civil war in Spain, Stalin's consolidation of power and subsequent liquidation of millions of independent peasant farmers. Hitler sought to exterminate the Jewish people Mussolini brought modern warfare to Italy's colonies1. This was the scene for Auden to present the need for a new breed of hero, a hero who could overcome the adversity of this age. Auden sets out to create a hero out of the ordinary man. A hero that flouts the popularly conceived notions of heroism. Through employing the facets of the classical and Norse heroics as a metaphor for both the overwhealming corrupt power of imperialism and the unfeasible nature of suck a hero Auden lays philosophical theory for a psychological revolution that will create his workable hero flouting the...
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