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Work #676 · Mid

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

W.H. Auden
1944-46 (composed); 1947 (published) · English
Long modernist poem · Anglo-American modernist poetry

Auden's 1947 foundational long poem — "the age of anxiety" defining post-WWII spiritual condition

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Attribute The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

The post-WWII anxious time.

Space

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

The New York bar / wartime America.

Matter

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

The embodied characters in WWII-era anxiety.

Observer

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

Four characters (representing four faculties).

Energy

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

Energies of post-WWII anxiety.

Information

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

Foundational post-WWII existential-spiritual poetic framework.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

Auden's The Age of Anxiety gave the era its name and reflects his mature Christian-existentialist orientation.