[New-Poetry] Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Auden is Acid, and Y'all Ca...

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

In a message dated 3/5/2007 11:22:16 AM Central Daylight Time, tad at opus40.org 
writes: 
> 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
>   
> 
Can this be verified?  Very interesting.  There was a long piece on Auden in 
the TLS a couple of weeks ago.   
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