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    Both of these poems show us the path of death. In “The Unknown Citizen” and “Departmental”, they both have a organisms that have passed away. One of these poems ,”The Unknown Citizen” it the summery of a man life and everything he did to give back to the state and the economy. The other is about a group of ants taking care of the dead of another species. In both poems they have strong conformists and conforming society's, which show us how conformity can be an excellent and terrible way to operate

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    Both “The Company Man” and “The Unknown Citizen” tell two different stories about two hard-working men. Both men wanted nothing but the best for their families, they wanted them to be financially stable and worked just has hard to make sure that would happen. Both men worked hard until their very last breath and while doing this, they made sure that even after their death their families would be okay financially. But one thing that stood out differently about both men, were how they approached this

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    “The Unknown Citizen,” a poem written by W.H. Auden, alludes to a time of great change in American history, where the poem is meant to mock the government’s viewpoint of the perfect role model for an unrealistic, impractical citizen. The author, W.H. Auden, writes and intends for the historical context of his poem to be in the late 1930’s, when America was going through the Great Depression. Citizens were losing a sense of nationalism for America and had begun to negatively view the government. During

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    sparked an allowance for him to change his writing style. ‘The Unknown Citizen’ and ‘In Memory of W.B Yeats’ were both written in 1939, shortly after Auden’s move to America. Both poems have representations on the multifaceted nature of human immortality and the effects that those depictions have on the individual that they were modelled off and how those interpretations can varying depending on context. In Auden’s poem ‘The Unknown Citizen’ the

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    ‘Capitalism, Marxism tells us, thrives on exploiting its labourers’- Auden presents a dominant undermining theme in The Unknown Citizen where the protagonist is portrayed to be acting in a conformist manner and thus accepting their lives under Government control and restriction. Through the use of force and threat, the protagonist’s life are being overpowered by rules on how to live their lives in what is deemed to be in a ‘normal way’. Auden, throughout his illustrious collections of poems, philosophically

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    many don’t realize the struggles that people who are well known have. Everyday the cloths you wear and the actions you take are judged, and the more public you make your life the more of that judgment you bring with you, good or bad. “The Unknown Citizen” and “Richard Cory” explain the lives of two totally different people, but both help prove the same

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    The Allegory Of The Cave

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    Truth is an abstract concept by which mankind bases all knowledge. It is information that we believe to be indisputably and undeniably accurate. Yet how can we ever prove such information to be true? What about the “truths” that cannot be measured? To insist that something is objectively true is to maintain that it is always true outside of one’s beliefs or perception. However, our experiences, perceptions, and emotions all differ from those of others, and yet we still know them to be a definite

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    Themes of W.H. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen" Conformity and Anonymity in the Modern World "Social Security Number? Birth date? Nine digit telephone number starting with area code? Mother's Maiden Name?" In many ways, we are simply faceless numbers to modern society, not individuals with feelings and emotions and dreams. W.H. Auden, a well-known English poet and dramatist, discusses this important theme in his poem "An Unknown Soldier." Auden, being a modernist, is concerned with this modern idea

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    Managing Over-the-Horizon Risk “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don 't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don 't know we don 't know” – Donald Rumsfeld As the financial crisis seems largely behind us and the worldwide economy continues to improve, people are getting excited; looking away from the latest disaster to the next big thing. Businesses are successful once

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