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The shield of Achilles
Book • 1955
The poem 'The Shield of Achilles' by W.H.
Auden is a meditation on the violence and brutality of the modern world, using an episode from Homer's 'Iliad'.
It describes Thetis's dismay at the scenes Hephaestus creates on Achilles' shield, which depict an artificial wilderness, a sky like lead, and scenes of human suffering and cruelty.
The collection, also titled 'The Shield of Achilles', includes poems written by Auden from 1951 through 1954 and won the U.S.
National Book Award for Poetry in 1956.
The poem and collection reflect themes of modernity, futility, war, heroism, death, and the passivity of modern men.
Auden is a meditation on the violence and brutality of the modern world, using an episode from Homer's 'Iliad'.
It describes Thetis's dismay at the scenes Hephaestus creates on Achilles' shield, which depict an artificial wilderness, a sky like lead, and scenes of human suffering and cruelty.
The collection, also titled 'The Shield of Achilles', includes poems written by Auden from 1951 through 1954 and won the U.S.
National Book Award for Poetry in 1956.
The poem and collection reflect themes of modernity, futility, war, heroism, death, and the passivity of modern men.
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