https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-wh-auden-hated-his-most-famous-political-poems https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-wh-auden-hated-his-most-fa... >Auden was for

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-wh-auden-hated-his-most-famous-political-poems https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-wh-auden-hated-his-most-fa... >Auden was forever concerned with the plight of refugees and the displaced, whether they were fleeing Hitler, Franco, Stalin or the general carnage of postwar Europe. Democratic nations always turned them away for the same reason—and still do: “Came to a public meeting; the speaker got up and said; ‘If we let them in, they will steal our daily bread’: He was talking of you and me, my dear, he was talking of you and me.”