Don’t be fooled we will always take our pride and joy wherever we go / Because that will never be left behind, nuestra alegria / Sin importar lo bueno o lo malo, ay que disfrutar de la vida como sea
Through constant oscillation between the imagined and the tangible, Auden presents the problem of love; even when the “you” only exists in the imagined past, the speaker cannot help but try, through language, to bring them into the tangible present.
“Look, Doni!” the girl called to me, “I’m like a bird!” She discovering “the other,” organizing the world around her into the grammar of you/I, bird/not-bird, like/not-like.
Elizabeth Bishop very infrequently presents an uncritical or one-sided examination of any idea; her poems are filled with slight contradictions, subtle reversals, and moments of irony that force the reader to engage intimately with the material being described in order to find meaning.
“In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” W.H. Auden constructs a multifaceted modern elegy, switching between different poetic forms to examine his subject from different angles.
