DESPAIR AND DESPONDENCY IN THE POETRY OF W.H. AUDEN

As it was a period of crisis, dismay and loss of value. Auden and his contemporaries were
greatly agitated and tried to diagnose the ills of modern civilization in Marxian and Freudian
terms. During this phase Auden visited Belgium, Iceland, Spain and China and examined their
political, economic, social problems and conditions and found that….
“Everywhere man was in the quandary.”
Auden was like a current of fresh air that refreshes and makes the people breath a long
breath; He was in fact a leader who made the people conscious of their problems and tried to pull
them out from the abyss of despair and despondency. Auden started on his poetic journey in search
of human values.