"ALL I HAVE IS A VOICE / TO UNDO THE FOLDED LIE"

Then we must burn.

Brightly.

Brightly.

Posted by Cathy at January 1, 2009 11:35 AM

Many years ago I committed this poem to memory (along with about two dozen other English lyric poems that appealed to me). So, when I read this I immediately recognized the substitution of the word "terrorism's" for "imperialism's" in the fourth stanza. I believe Auden in his later more conservative years might well have approved of the substitution.

Posted by Kendall Craig at January 1, 2009 6:57 PM

I posted a reading of this poem on youtube. Else where there is a link to my reading of "The Journey of the Magi". If you want to hear this one it's here http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oWtVYYoJFl4

Posted by Tom O'Bedlam at January 3, 2009 4:58 AM

I posted a reading of this poem on youtube. Else where there is a link to my reading of "The Journey of the Magi". If you want to hear this one it's here http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oWtVYYoJFl4

Posted by Tom O'Bedlam at January 3, 2009 4:58 AM

Thanks. Updated.

Posted by vanderleun at January 4, 2009 11:46 AM