We must love one another or die”-because he considered the work fundamentally dishonest. Auden famously turned his back on his poem “September 1, 1939,” written on the occasion of Germany’s invasion of Poland-“All I have is a voice / To undo the folded lie . . . First this thought and then that.” Moore was not the first author to question what you might call her reactive voice. “It is just a protest-disjointed, exclamatory. . . . In a 1961 interview, the great modernist poet Marianne Moore expressed ambivalence about her popular 1943 antiwar verse, “In Distrust of Merits.” “As form, what has it?” Moore said.
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