...which wil| remain forever open. We may accept them now or lose them now. "History," says Wystan Auden, History to the defeated May say Alas, but cannot help or pardon. History can say Alas to this American civilization of ours as well as to any other. Unless we save...

...one man's life. TS Eliot on Charles Eliot Norton : The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1932) The stars are dead; the animals will not look : We...the defeated May say Alas but cannot help or pardon. WH Auden: 'Spain 1937' Eliot's lectures on The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism contain insights...

...for deciding is short, and the tools for arriving at a decision inadequate. He will, however, decide: "The stars are dead. The animals will not look. /...History to the defeated / May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon." The narrator pays ironic homage to the elegist's traditional use of the pathetic fallacy:...

...the late 1930's WH Auden wrote lines that express our present need to acknowledge and to make amends: "We are left alone with our day. and the time is short...defeated "May say Alas but cannot help or pardon. It is our belief that, though history cannot be unmade, it is well within our power to offer help,...

...centers. So in memory of Minoru Yasui and the 60,000 who are not here with us today, I quote WH Auden: We are left alone with our day and the time is short...defeated may say, alas, but cannot help or pardon. We hope that Auden's words will not be the epitaph to Executive Order 9066, which removed Japanese...

...wrote the words that express the need for redress; to acknowledge the injustice and to make amends: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short and History to the defeated Hay say Alas but cannot help or pardon. We sincerely hope that Auden 's words will not be the •pitaph...

...II. Auden wrote lines that express our present need to acknowledge and to make amends: "We are lett alone with our day. and the time is short and "History to the defeated "May s*y Alas but cannot help or pardon. It is our belief that, though history cannot be unmade, it is well...

...the last time during Auden's lifetime in the very year in which Darkness at Noon was first published: The stars are dead; the animals will not look: We...History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon. These lines could well serve as an epitaph for Koestler's protagonist, who walks down a...

...last November at the age of 70. In memory of the 60,000 who are not with us today, I quote WH Auden: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short...the Defeated May say Alas but cannot help or pardon. We sincerely hope that Auden's words will not be the epitaph to Executive Order 9066. The Magna Cart...

...wrote the words that express the need for redress; to acknowledge the injustice and to make amends: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short and History to the defeated Hay say Alas but cannot help or pardon. We sincerely hope that Auden 's words will not be the epitaph...