Idealism in Auden’s O who can ever gaze his fill, Out on the lawn I li

Idealism in Audens O who can invariably stare his fill, Out on the lawn I lie in bed (A pass nighttime 1933), and The plate of Achilles W.H. Audens poems are celebrated for their intelligence, detachedness, and musicality. Often, high-mindedism is associated with love story and the excessively personal, because it is an attempt at envisioning the world as it ought to be and non as it is. However, Auden successfully blends idealism into his objective poems, and this idealism manifests itself in his O who can ever gaze his fill, Out on the lawn I lie in bed (A Summer Night 1933), and The Shield of Achilles. In O who can ever gaze his fill, mortals from various walks of invigoration comment on their ideals while Death watches over them. Composed of quaternion stanzas, Deaths refrain succeeds the mortals thoughts and gets the last say in severally instance. In the first stanza, the farmer and the fisherman look upon the water and the work fondly, believing that the traditional life of hard work coexists with their closeness to nature. This ideal life is how their forefathers have lived, and it is how the pilgrims from their loins should live in the years to seminal fluid (6). However, Death remarks as it oversees the empty catch and harvest loss (9) that, the undercoat is an oyster with nothing inside it (12). Therefore, it advises, forget this ideal and throw slash the mattock and dance while you can (15). This advice can be seen as tolerant up on the traditional way of life, so that the fisherman and the farmer no longer have to be bound to their toils. Death also says, Not to be born is the best for man (13), and this phrase is repeat in the subsequent stanzas. In the ideal world, perhaps mankind is not born i... ...ion, love, art, and nature. This idealism, far from being romantic, is imbued with rationality. Often, it is also countered by a secure cynicism. Using haunting imageries and melodic poetic device s, Auden successfully demonstrates a equilibrate sense of idealism in his O who can ever gaze his fill, Out on the lawn I lie in bed (A Summer Night 1933), and The Shield of Achilles.* some versions of the poem, like the one in Selected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson (Vintage) appear to have 15 stanzas. Works CitedAuden, W.H. A Summer Night 1933. In The Colleced Poetry of Auden, pp. 96-98. New York Random House, 1945.Auden, W.H. O who can ever gaze his fill. In The Colleced Poetry of Auden, pp. 224-226. New York Random House, 1945.Auden, W.H. The Shield of Achilles. In The Shield of Achilles, pp. 35-37. New York Random House, 1955.