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... Auden’s poem The “Unknown Citizen” portrays the unimportance and anonymity that the individual tends to play in society. For the majority of the poem the reader is given the picture of a citizen who by all accounts seems to be living out the American dream. ... Like the Unknown Soldier memorial, the citizen in the poem represents all those individuals who are represented as statistics rather than whom they are. ... From the information given the unknown citizen could have just as easily been miserable as happy. ... It is not even necessary, as with the citizen in the story, for a name to be attached. ... Yet the speaker never gives us the citizen’s name. ... This is Auden’s way of saying that it is unimportant to the speaker; just as the individual is unimportant as long as he causes no disturbances
The name is so unimportant that it does not even mark the memorial that is erected to this individual. ... If we simply follow the set path we will become Auden’s Unknown Citizen.
Approximate Word count = 865
Approximate Pages = 3.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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