This man wrote about an "oceanic whisper" that entices people to leave home by sighing, "I am the solitude that asks and promises nothing."
This man wrote about an "oceanic whisper" that entices people to leave home by sighing, "I am the solitude that asks and promises nothing." The speaker of another of his poems concludes, "Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return" and later states "What mad Nijinsky wrote / About Diaghilev / Is true of the normal heart". This author of "In Praise of Limestone" described how "the dogs go on with their doggy life" in a poem that opens "About (*) suffering they were never wrong, / The old Masters". That poem by this man describes how "everything turned away / Quite leisurely from the disaster" in "Breughel's Icarus". For 10 points, name this Anglo-American poet of The Age of Anxiety who wrote "September 1st, 1939" and "Musée des Beaux Arts".
This man wrote about an "oceanic whisper" that entices people to leave home by sighing, "I am the solitude that asks and promises nothing."
Wystan Hugh Auden