If you saw the film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' <br />you'd have been moved maybe to tears <br />by his 'Funeral Blues'; <br /> <br />If you were a college poetry student <br />the day after 9/11 <br />you might have had your poet in residence <br />read his 'September 1,1939' <br />and had your breath taken away <br />by its accidental appropriateness <br />and the last line, which he wanted to amend, <br />'We must love each other, or die' <br /> <br />Two poems he himself didn't think quite good enough.. <br />this is posthumous fame beyond the control <br />of poets; <br />this is what poetry can leave to the world; <br />this is what poetry is. <br /> <br />Wystan Hugh Auden would have been 100 today. <br /> <br />Rest In Poetry.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/february-21-whose-birthday-today/
