https://padlet.com/brittany_welch1/x7u2i9ghlv61 Biography of W.H Auden en-us 2018-04-09 23:31:01 UTC 2018-04-23 15:33:26 UTC hello@padlet.com brittany_welch1 https://padlet.com/brittany_welch1/x7u2i9ghlv61/wish/250067313 Brief overview:

W.H. Auden was born in 1907, and grew up in York England.
Auden was the youngest child and had a fascination for science, not poetry as a boy.
It wasn't until the age of 15 that Auden realized his poetic potential.
From then on he started taking steps to help him become a great poet one day.
Auden was well educated in school and was accepted into Oxford college in 1925 where he met a deeply influential friend W.B. Yeats.

After graduating World War I began and caused him to immigrate to the United States, where he would write and publish his famous elegy about his friend W.B. Yeats.
Auden's companion in life was Chester Kallman who helped collaborate on some of his works.
Auden later became a professor of poetry in 1956-61 at his alma mater Oxford. 
Lived a happy life centered around poetry until his death in, 1973.

]]> 2018-04-09 23:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/brittany_welch1/x7u2i9ghlv61/wish/250067313 brittany_welch1 https://padlet.com/brittany_welch1/x7u2i9ghlv61/wish/250069663 _^" "The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living"-(exrpt)]]> 2018-04-09 23:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/brittany_welch1/x7u2i9ghlv61/wish/250069663 brittany_welch1 https://padlet.com/brittany_welch1/x7u2i9ghlv61/wish/250070343 Auden and W.B. Yeats first met each other when they studied together at oxford.
Each shared similar interests in poetry as an art form.
W.B. Yeats became a famous Irish poet.
W.H. Auden became a famous English poet/ spokes person of their generation.
Yeats died shortly after Auden had arrived to New York after the outbreak of the first World War forced him out.
Since Auden had known Yeats on a personal level he was given the opportunity to write his elegy to commemorate Yeat's great accomplishments.]]> 2018-04-09 23:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/brittany_welch1/x7u2i9ghlv61/wish/250070343 brittany_welch1 https://padlet.com/brittany_welch1/x7u2i9ghlv61/wish/252816897 W.H. Auden wrote and published his elegy in an issue of New Republic -days after he had gotten the news.

Though Auden had never written with a focus on religion before, he did an amazing job.

Written in 3 parts, the poem transitions from describing the death of a great man, the fate of his work, and ends with a final farewell to his friend he refers to as "the Irish Vessel".

Auden also refers to the war raging in Europe by addressing the power poetry can have to change someone's perspective when dealing with turmoil.

The poem was a major success and had people calling it "one of the centuries greatest elegies".

It also played a role in his recent conversion back to his Christian faith a year after it had been published.

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