W. H. Auden’s poem "The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue"

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W. H. Auden’s "The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue" is a long, introspective poem that explores modern existential disquiet and spiritual crisis through the conversations of four strangers in a New York bar during World War II.

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instanceOf eclogue
long poem
poem
author W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden
linked to: W. H. Auden
awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
awardYear 1948
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
United States
featuresCharacter Emble
Malin
Quant
Rosetta
firstPublicationYear 1947
firstPublishedAs book-length poem
form baroque eclogue
eclogue
genre modernist poetry
philosophical poem
psychological poem
influenced Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
influenceOn 20th-century literature
language English
literaryMovement Christian existentialism
Modernism
narrativeDevice conversation among strangers
notableFor complex verse forms
philosophical depth
numberOfMainCharacters 4
partOfAuthorPeriod Auden’s later work
publisher Random House
setting a wartime New York bar
settingLocation New York City
a bar in New York City
structure divided into parts or sections
subjectMatter inner lives of four strangers
post-religious world
psychological introspection
theme alienation in modern society
effects of war on the psyche
modern existential disquiet
modernity and fragmentation
religious doubt
search for identity
spiritual crisis
timePeriodOfSetting World War II
titleAlludesTo widespread anxiety in the modern age
writtenDuring World War II

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