W.H Auden

W.H Auden’s “Who’s Who” is a poem is composed of an octet as the first stanza and the second stanza is composed of a sestet.  This poem is about a famous person who achieved great success in their life.  They “climbed new mountains;/ named a sea:” (line 6) and accomplished miraculous things, and yet despite of achieving such success, something is missing from his life.  The lines “Some of the last researchers even write/ Love made him weep his pints like you and me.” (lines 6-7) lead the reader to believe that he is unhappy about the loss of a love.  Even though he has experienced a grand success, it isn’t enough to truly make him happy and make his life complete.  “As I Walked Out One Evening” is a poem that is composed of fifteen quatrains and is about time and the different views from two different viewpoints. I believe the viewpoints are from love and time itself. The point that is first described is time from the viewpoint of love. The line “Love has no ending.” (line 8) is typical of what lovers believe. They believe that their love will last the test of time and go on forever, even after they are no longer walking the earth. The next viewpoint is time, and it believes that it cannot be conquered, not by love; not by anything.