The Unknown Citizen

http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Unknown_Citizen an entity of type: Poem

Il cittadino sconosciuto (The Unknown Citizen) è una poesia di Wystan Hugh Auden, scritta nel 1939 e pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1940. Si tratta di un componimento riconducibile al filone della letteratura distopica. rdf:langString
"The Unknown Citizen" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States. The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in The New Yorker, and first appeared in book form in Auden's collection Another Time (Random House, 1940).The poem is the epitaph of a man identified only by a combination of letters and numbers somewhat like an American Social Security number ("JS/07/M/378"), who is described entirely in external terms: from the point of view of government organizations such as the fictional "Bureau of Statistics." The speaker of the poem concludes that the man had lived an entirely average, therefore exemplary, life. The poem is a satire of standardization at the expense of individualism. The poem is implicitly the work of a government rdf:langString
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rdf:langString The Unknown Citizen
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rdf:langString "The Unknown Citizen" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States. The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in The New Yorker, and first appeared in book form in Auden's collection Another Time (Random House, 1940).The poem is the epitaph of a man identified only by a combination of letters and numbers somewhat like an American Social Security number ("JS/07/M/378"), who is described entirely in external terms: from the point of view of government organizations such as the fictional "Bureau of Statistics." The speaker of the poem concludes that the man had lived an entirely average, therefore exemplary, life. The poem is a satire of standardization at the expense of individualism. The poem is implicitly the work of a government agency at some point in the future, when modern bureaucratizing trends have reached the point where citizens are known by arbitrary numbers and letters, not personal names.
rdf:langString Il cittadino sconosciuto (The Unknown Citizen) è una poesia di Wystan Hugh Auden, scritta nel 1939 e pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1940. Si tratta di un componimento riconducibile al filone della letteratura distopica.
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