Auden’s unknown citizen is a model of conformity in a society where everyone must follow the rules if things are to run smoothly. He does all the right things. The government can produce reports to show that he did all the right things.
Q. How does Emily Dickinson use personification in because I could not stop for death?
Dickinson uses personification to convey how death is like a person in her poem “Because I could Not Stop for Death.” This is shown when she conveys how death waits for her. Dickinson also uses metaphors in her poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”. She uses these to compare the journey and resting place of death.
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- Q. How does Emily Dickinson use personification in because I could not stop for death?
- Q. How does Emily Dickinson treat death in her poem because I could not stop for death?
- Q. What is the main theme of because I could not stop for death?
- Q. What kind of poem is the unknown citizen?
- Q. Why does the citizen remain unknown in this modern world?
- Q. When there was peace he was for peace?
- Q. Was he happy was he free the question is absurd?
- Q. What kind of information does the speaker provide about the deceased in the unknown citizen?
Q. How does Emily Dickinson treat death in her poem because I could not stop for death?
In this poem, Dickinson’s speaker is communicating from beyond the grave, describing her journey with Death, personified, from life to afterlife. In the opening stanza, the speaker is too busy for Death (“Because I could not stop for Death—“), so Death—“kindly”—takes the time to do what she cannot, and stops for her.
Q. What is the main theme of because I could not stop for death?
The central theme [of “Because I could not stop for Death”] is the interpretation of mortal experience from the standpoint of immortality. A theme stemming from that is the defining of eternity as timelessness. The poet uses these abstractions— mortality, immortality, and eternity—in terms /585/ of images.
Q. What kind of poem is the unknown citizen?
satirical elegy
Q. Why does the citizen remain unknown in this modern world?
Although many facts about the citizen are known, he remains unknown because details highlighting his individuality are ignored. He is simply representative of all the citizenry who conform to set standards and practices, standards which are dictated by the mass organizations and institutions that shape society.
Q. When there was peace he was for peace?
When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.
Q. Was he happy was he free the question is absurd?
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
Q. What kind of information does the speaker provide about the deceased in the unknown citizen?
The speaker provide about the deceased in The Unknown Citizen is to be like everyone else. Explanation: “The Unknown Citizen” is a sonnet composed by W. H. Auden in 1939, soon after he moved from England to the United States.
