Get If I Could Tell You Poem Background. 🔰 the first time i read the poem i loved it, afterward i read a few poem analyses of this particular poem and they almost made me dislike it. On dec 01 2018 10:21 pm x edit.
Auden's poem, if i could tell you, he uses the formal elements of the villanelle to contribute to his central theme of the fickleness and ravages of time:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated don't give way to hating I shouldn't drink that wine if i (be) you. El condor pasa (if i could). If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;