Posted by nikki on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 12:06pm.
These are my aopinions about that poem, which is one of my favortes, by the way.
<< would Auden's 'The Unknown Citizen' be an example of reductio ad absurdum?>>
No. That refers to a method argument reducing a held position to a ridiculous one through a series of logical steps.
<<And is the entire poem an epitaph? Or is it simply the persona speaking?>>
It is entirely an elegy/eulogy, but for an imaginary person. I don't know who the "persona" is you are speaking of, but it is certainly the poet's point of view.
<<Would you say it is a combination of elegy and satire? >>
Yes
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