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Fifteen Poems by W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden: Tell me the Truth About Love

Had ​he been writing now, Auden might well have penned a poem entitled „Tell me the Truth About Publishing”, for the publication of this special, short collection was directly inspired by the runaway success of the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral in which one of Auden's poems was recited.

Stretching from October 1932 to June 1948, the poems may have been more revelatory had they been arranged chronologically but commercial demands have placed „Funeral Blues”, forevermore known as the poem in the movie, at the end, while „Lullaby”, arguably a better poem, is tucked away inside. The period partly coincides with Auden going to America in January 1939 and „Calypso” pulses with the rhythm of a train taking him to his New York rendez-vous at Grand Central. „For there in the middle of that waiting-hall, / Should be standing the one that I love best of all.”

Many of the poems have the same jolly air and belting rhythm and indeed were written as cabaret songs. „At Last… (tovább)

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Faber and Faber, London, 1999
34 oldal · ISBN: 0571202608

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You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart

19. oldal, As I Walked Out One Evening (Faber and Faber, 1999)

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He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

33. oldal, Funeral Blues (Faber and Faber, 1999)

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If Í were the Héad of the Chúrch or the Státe,
I’d pówder my nóse and just téll them to wáit.

For lóve’s more impórtant and pówerful thán
Ever a príest or a póliticián.

9. oldal, Calypso (Faber and Faber, 1999)

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O look, look in the mirror,
O look in your distress:
Life remains a blessing
Although you cannot bless.

18. oldal, As I Walked Out One Evening (Faber and Faber, 1999)

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Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.

4. oldal, O Tell Me The Truth About Love (Faber and Faber, 1999)

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I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,

17. oldal, As I Walked Out One Evening (Faber and Faber, 1999)

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But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
‘O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.

‘In the burrows of the Nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
And coughs when you would kiss.

17-18. oldal, As I Walked Out One Evening (Faber and Faber, 1999)

W. H. Auden: Tell me the Truth About Love Fifteen Poems by W. H. Auden

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