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Night Mail, W.H.Auden

"OMG so what should

I remember about this poem ???"

  • poem about mail being delivered at night (hence the title "Night Mail")
  • Meant to be heard (rhythm, rhyme scheme, anaphoras)
  • universality of letters
  • importance of human connections

Context

All aboard the

Night Mail Express!

Important Quotes

  • "For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? "

  • "Letters for the rich, letters for the poor"
  • Written in 1936 to accompany a documentary film
  • Reveal how the mail was distributed by train
  • International news : particularly important

"Men long for news"

Context

Structure / Content

What you should remember

Important Quotes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmciuKsBOi0

Structure / Content

Poem divided into four sections

FIRST SECTION

SECOND SECTION

l. 1-16

l. 17 - 24

  • variety of letters to a variety of people (universality)
  • train personified
  • animals / humans
  • train descending into Scotland (industrial landscape)
  • scotland longs for its news (historical context)
  • irregular meter (=/= first section)

THIRD SECTION

l. 25 - 43

FOURTH SECTION

  • excitement of people receiving all the letters (though most of them are still asleep)

= like a fairy giving gifts / santa

  • inventory of all the things sent by post (anaphora)
  • rhythm : faster / easier to memorize + rhyme scheme

l. 44 - 53

  • people fast asleep : unaware of the train (not grateful enough?)
  • last line : emphasizes the importance of mail at the time

I hope I'll get a

letter from my parents

this time...

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