
WH Auden
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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The Birth of Jesus
I think he slightly moved away from suffering in that this is the miraculous birth. There always must be hildren who did not specially want it to happen. We can't all be part of everyone's tragedy, everyone's ominous birth because life would be unbearable. So i'll read that bit. They never forgot that even the dread fu martyrdom must run its course. It seems to cot straight to the crucifixion. And that's a neat switch, from birth looking forward to death, cotting to death looking forward to rebirth and resurrection.
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