The sky is darkening like a stain;
Something is going to fall like rain,
And it won't be flowers.

W.H. Auden

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Topic

Foreboding

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

The Witnesses

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Auden, W. H. "The Witnesses." Listener’s poetry supplement, 12 July 1933.

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Evil is unspectacular and always human,
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W.H. Auden

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Nature of evil Evil

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W.H. Auden
Source
Herman Melville
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Auden, W. H. "Herman Melville." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

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The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding and powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go.

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Sigmund Freud
Source
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
Genre
Psychological literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
German
Time
1933 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 31. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 31.