[New-Poetry] Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Auden is Acid, and Y'all Can Go Screw

[TheOldMole]

Has anyone ever heard this before? From Christopher Hitchens.

Another celebrated Auden line - "We must love one another or die" - was annexed without his permission and used in Lyndon Johnson's notorious attack ad on Barry Goldwater in 1964, showing a little girl counting petals as she mutates into a thermonuclear countdown. The hideous scene closes with Auden's words. He was so furious at this that he removed the poem from his canon. He was prone to excise things that had been exploited or distorted


Tad Richards
www.opus40.org
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
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