Summary of the poem the diaspora by w.H.Auden in very simple english
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The poem is titled ‘The Diaspora‘, which means dispersion, particularly, of the Jews after the Babylonian captivity. It also refers to the dispersion of the Jews in the Age of Christ’s Twelve Apostles. In relation to the present poem, the title also means the dispersion of the Jews and their emigration to other countries, from Germany and the countries occupied by her during World War II (1939-45).
In a gloomy mood, Auden writes that the Jews have never reconciled themselves to the survival of Christianity after Christ’s crucifixion. They persecuted him like anything. They pursued him to the cross. Thereafter they vilified his system of religion and ridiculed his Heaven as a land of mirages. Their sin has ultimately recoiled upon themselves. The Nazi Germans are persecuting the Jews as if to punish them for the sin committed by their ancient ancestors about two thousand years ago.
The Jews of the early Christian centuries could never understand how Jesus Christ and his system of religion could survive his persecution and crucifixion. Their ancestors had beggared him, pursued him to the Cross, and had him crucified. Their intolerance proved that they loved their God called Jehovah, their Jewish religion, and their land Israel more than their lives.
Their God had commanded them to love and worship only it, with all their heart and in all places. Hence they attempted to drive Christ and his faith not only out of the bounds of the earth but also out of the bounds of their heaven. Yet Christ completed his mission of the prophet for which he was born. But his persecutors were filled with envy at his religion of the Cross, too. They vilified his system of religion to the last degree. They represented his Heaven as a land of mirages.
And now in the present age, their sin of persecuting Christ has again recoiled upon the heads of their children. The Nazi Germans are persecuting the human body of the Jews, and causing the diaspora as if to punish them for the sin of Christ’s persecution committed by their ancient ancestors about two thousand years ago.
In the present sonnet, Auden has employed ‘he,’ ‘his,’ and ‘him’ for Jesus Christ, and ‘they,’ ‘them,’ and ‘their’ for the Jews. In the last line, ‘they’ has been used to refer to the Nazi German. Auden has adopted this device to avoid falling into any religious controversy.
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