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Essay Galaxy - The Unknown Citizen
The 20th Century witnessed the rise of nationalism. Government started to justify many of its actions, unimaginable before, as for the good of the nation. The government played a deeper role in people’s personal life, probing and examining every minute detail in search for any “unpatriotic” crime. Individuals who met the government’s standards were lauded as model and patriotic citizens. Those who did not, such as those in the Red Scare of 1950s, were ostracized. This alarmed a generation of writers who wrote to protest this “new” society. W. H. Auden was among one of these writers. In his poem “The Unknown Citizen”, through the use of irony, allusion, tone and word choice, the author expressed his concerns for society that sat passively while its government became more powerful and impersonal, restr....
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