Wystan hugh auden love poems

As a 25 year old teacher, Auden became attracted to one of his 13 year old male students. There is no evidence of any physical contact or impropriety.

Yet the experience aroused deep feelings and lingering inspirations for Auden.

Wystan hugh auden love poems

Five years later he wrote the poem Lullaby.

Courtly love, idealised the object of love, leading to ultimate beauty, truth and God. Through the pursuit of beauty, we transcend or become exalted beyond the physical or temporal to a higher spiritual plain and aspire to Godliness.

Pining draws the lover away from things which are base.

Like Donne, Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence and many others, Auden believed carnal lust can transcend into spiritual love. His becomes a much broader view of the redemptive power of human love and how it can enlarge our humanity.

Lullaby #

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves t