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

[TheOldMole]

Hal -- he did. But that turned out to be a terrible solution.

Skip -- that's what I've heard, too. I'm wondering if Hitchens just pulled this out of his ass.
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  Then he could have fixed that by simply changing "or" to "and."


  Hal


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  On Mar 5, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Skip Fox wrote:


    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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    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





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