The Unknown Citizen

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The Unknown Citizen is a poem by W. H. Auden. It was written in 1940. It is the epitaph of a man, as told by the state. The poem has strong resemblances to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

This poem is still under copyright, but it can be found in the book: W. H. Auden Collected Poems (1991) ISBN 0-679-73197-0

It is also available online by permission of The Estate of W. H. Auden at www.poets.org.

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