Lines 14 – 21 The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every dayĪnd that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.

He was cherished by his peers, and he was outgoing. Except when he went to war, he was also profoundly dedicated to serving the “Greater Community.” No one in the administration or his workplace had any problems with him. The speaker claims there were no “official complaints” against the unknown citizen, and he was considered a “saint”. That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink. (Our report on his Union shows it was sound) Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views,įor his Union reports that he paid his dues, He worked in a factory and never got fired,īut satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc. That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,įor in everything he did he served the Greater Community.Įxcept for the War till the day he retired One against whom there was no official complaint, Lines 1 – 13 He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be He died of heart failure at the age of 66 in Vienna, Austria. The “Age of Anxiety” garnered Auden the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. He was a brilliant writer, playwright, librettist, editor, and essayist.

Auden was born on February 21, 1907, in York, England.