Question

Assess theke unknown citizen as critique of modern society​

Answer 1

Through the poem “The Unknown Citizen,” Auden wants to convey the idea that modern society is overly regimented and controlled by the state. As a result, people have become dehumanized, treated as nothing more than cogs in a gigantic machine.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Concept :

The Bureau of Statistics reports that no one has ever filed an official complaint against him. The other accounts of his actions all state that he was, in essence, the ideal citizen since he carried out all of his societal obligations. The agencies in charge of setting up society concur that he supported the State's goal and had everything a contemporary person needed, including a record player, radio, automobile, and refrigerator. He had a wife and five children, which, in the estimation of our government official who seeks to maximise the gene pool, was the ideal number of new humans to society. He didn't challenge the instructors' methods; he just let them work with the kids. Asking if he was free or content is pointless since we would have detected any problems with him.

Explanation:

• Shortly after immigrating to America in 1939, the British poet W.H. Auden composed "The Unknown Citizen."
• The poem was composed in honour of a guy who recently passed away and who lived what the government considered to be an exemplary life. It is a type of sarcastic elegy.
• Really, this life seems to have been absolutely mundane—exemplary only in the sense that this individual never questioned or deviated from societal norms.
• On the one hand, the poem indirectly criticises the uniformity of modern life, warning that when individuals only pay attention to the same status symbols and marks of accomplishment, they risk losing sight of what it means to be an individual (like having the right job, the right number of kids, the right car, and so forth).
• The poem also paints a terrifying vision of a society where there is absolute conformity, state persecution, and a bureaucratic government that controls and monitors the everyday lives of its residents.

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