Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets. “Epitaph on a Tyrant” It is British poet Auden’s most famous political poems written in 1939. Concise and scathingly witty, it’s readily applicable to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, or any tyrant or Modern Nero.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 04:55:32 +0000
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