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If I Could Tell You by W H Auden - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry. If I Could Tell You. Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know. If we should weep when clowns put on their show, If we should stumble when musicians play,
If I Could Tell You Lyrics. Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know. If we should weep...
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In the first stanza of ‘If I Could Tell You’ the speaker begins by making a series of statements about time. He describes what is does and does not do as well as how human beings experience and interpret it. First, the speaker states that the only thing time is going to do is “say…I told you so”. Time, which Auden is personifying, knows, before any...
Auden’s speaker goes on, providing the reader and intended listener with a few examples of what might happen in life. “We,” meaning the speaker and the person he is speaking to, might cry “when clowns put on their show” and “stumble when musicians play”. But at this point in their lives, there’s no way to actually know this. The last line is a pred...
The speaker knows that humans, and all those bound by the blessing and curse that is mortality, know nothing of the future. They cannot tell the fortunes of others or their own. But, the speaker says, if he could tell the future, he would let the listener know what it is. In this stanza, it is also revealed that there is some kind of personal relat...
The next stanzas contain some of the speaker’s contemplative thoughts about the world and why it works the way it does. He knows that the “winds must come from somewhere”. There but be a starting point, and, therefore, an endpoint, to everything. But this piece of information, as well as “why the leaves decay,” is beyond him. “Time,” the refrain ad...
In the last tercet of ‘If I Could Tell You’ the speaker continues these thoughts about the world and its inner workings. He thinks that maybe “the roses really want to grow”. Then, also, that maybe “The vision seriously intends to stay”. The speaker is imbuing life and agency onto forces that are not usually considered this way. This is all in an e...
The last stanza is made up of four lines. He proposes a situation in which everything humanity thinks it knows about the world falls apart. The “lions get up and go” and the rivers and soldiers “run away”. Everything, in this scenario, is fleeing, abandoning its previous way of life or post. This is a very drastic turn of events and he considers wh...
The poem explores the theme of time and its role in life, love, and humanity's ignorance. The speaker repeats the refrains \"Time will say nothing but I told you so\" and \"If I could tell you I would let you know\" to express his love and his wish to reveal the future.
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A villanelle by W. H. Auden that explores the themes of time, love, and fate. The poet imagines what he could tell his beloved if he had the power to foresee the future, but admits that time will say nothing but I told you so.
If I Could Tell You" is a poem by W. H. Auden. Written in 1940, it is in villanelle form and is one of the best-known and most effective examples of this form. Form. The poem is written in the villanelle or villanesque form of poetry, which contains nineteen lines. These lines consist of five tercets and a quatrain at the end.
9. Mai 2020 · A villanelle poem by Auden from 1940, expressing his uncertainty and anxiety about the future of civilisation amid the Second World War. The poem plays with contrasting refrains of certainty and uncertainty, and uses images of roses, brooks, and soldiers to convey its message.
27. Jan. 2012 · A poem by W.H. Auden that expresses the desire to tell someone something important, but also the uncertainty of knowing what to say. The poem repeats the phrase \"If I could tell you I would let you know\" and contrasts it with the phrase \"Time will say nothing but I told you so\".
