Homework Help: english

Posted by nikki on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 11:44pm.

I asked a similar question earlier, but I wasn't clear enough.

The subtitle of Auden's The Unknown Citizen is "To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument is Erected by the State"

So, is the entire poem an obituary written on the monument? Or is it a government representative speaking about the citizen, and unintentionally showing government hypocricy? Or is it simply the poet making a comment?

english - SraJMcGin, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 9:12am
Thank you for using the Jiskha Homework Help Forum. The comments on #1 are interesting about J.
S.:

1. http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/386.html

2. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/134309/wh_audens_the_unknown_citizen.html

3. http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=HFvWtLghj8QYJwXmldSjHTQphQQnWTLMy5hJQkQK1hHJK6Z1y51m!1157383817?docId=96539482

4. http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/2509.php

the initials might then refer to John Smith (like Jane Doe), forever to remain "unknown."

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