Get The Unknown Citizen Poem PNG. The unknown citizen is a poem that auden wrote at a turning point in his life, when he left england for the usa and left behind the idea that his poetry could make anything happen in the world. During the 1920s and 30s, many american writers left the states to become expatriates overseas, particularly in europe.
The unknown citizen, first published in the listener on august 1939, and later included in the collected shorter poems, 1950, is a satire, not on the in this poem auden shows that poverty and totalitarian regimes are not the only enemies of freedom.
Auden write this poem is about making fun of the unknown citizen. (to js/07/m/378 this marble monument is erected by the state). (to js/07/m/378/ this marble monument is erected by the state). .the unknown citizen is a satirical poem that may be described as an epitaph (an inscription on a tombstone that memorializes a dead person) or a eulogy (a written or spoken composition praising a dead person).