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

[Halvard Johnson]

Verified? What means "verified"?


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                                 --Paul Violi

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On Mar 5, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Rsgwynn1 at cs.com wrote:

> 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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