The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden — Analysis

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The Unknown Citizen

By W. H. Auden
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W.H. Auden, the American poet of British origin, wrote ‘The Unknown Citizen’ it in 1939, shortly after he migrated to the United States. The poem appeared in The New Yorker in 1939. One year later, it was included in Auden’s collection ‘Another Time’. Since then, countless readers have read and enjoyed this satirical poem that blisters with sarcasms against the practice in America and elsewhere of reducing all their citizens to a collection of cryptic statistical numbers.

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