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

[jforjames at aol.com]

Particularly during the Cold War, I would say that most readers, if they weren't trying 
to be obtuse about it, would hear an implied extension to the phrase, as in...
"We must love one another or die (more quickly; in greater numbers; hideously; etc.)"
 
Finnegan
 
 
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From: skip at louisiana.edu
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I heard he dropped the line (he was constantly revising) because he found it untrue on the very simple level that we must die no matter what. He said something to that effect if I remember correctly.
 
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Subject: [New-Poetry] Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Auden is Acid,and Y'all Can Go Screw
 
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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