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    The document summarizes two famous lines of poetry about love written by Philip Larkin and W.H. Auden. It discusses how both poets agonized over the lines and eventually tried to distance themselves from the lines, which seem at odds with their typically downbeat styles. The lines are Larkin's "What will survive of us is love" and Auden's "We must love one another or die."

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    The document summarizes two famous lines of poetry about love written by Philip Larkin and W.H. Auden. It discusses how both poets agonized over the lines and eventually tried to distance themselves from the lines, which seem at odds with their typically downbeat styles. The lines are Larkin's "What will survive of us is love" and Auden's "We must love one another or die."

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    cs4000 Lab 4

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    Bryan Cicero
    The document summarizes two famous lines of poetry about love written by Philip Larkin and W.H. Auden. It discusses how both poets agonized over the lines and eventually tried to distance themselves from the lines, which seem at odds with their typically downbeat styles. The lines are Larkin's "What will survive of us is love" and Auden's "We must love one another or die."

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    We must love
    one another or
    die.
    These two linesLarkins
    What will survive of us is
    love and Audens We must
    love one another or die
    No offense to the Beatles, but on first
    reading, Larkins line sounds like And
    may be the most well-known
    in the end, the love you take/ Is equal to lines of poetry about love
    What will survive of us is love. the love you make, that saccharine written in the past century.
    reduction of loves transcendence to But whats remarkable about
    algebra.
    them both is that the poets
    who wrote them agonized
    The line is so over them, were conflicted
    A+ A+ A+
    uncharacteristic of and critical of their own lines.
    Both Larkin and Auden
    A+ A+ A+ eventually tried to distance
    themselves

    A+ A+ A+

    A+ A+ A+
    Larkin, one of the
    most relentlessly Thinking about the survival
    downbeat poets in of love in the context of
    Larkins poem, I suddenly
    modern literature, felt the parallel with another
    that its almost controversial line, this one
    shocking in its from W.H. Auden. A quarter-
    apparently century or so before Larkin,
    Auden originally wrote, in
    uncomplicated the closing line of the
    penultimate stanza of perhaps
    his most celebrated
    poem, September 1, 1939:

    affirmation.

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