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WH Auden

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

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The Massacre of the Innocent

i like the transition from miraculous birth to crucifixion, because jesus's death on the cross is a sort of easter egg hidden in the nativity story. The massacre and the innocent that the dreadful martyrdom. Refers to then, the torturous horse that scratches his innocent behind on a tree. And i suppose this whole poem is about on specialing, suffering it on specials.

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