W.H Auden was one of many people who were hopeless by the events that were happening in 1939. Reality was not what you wanted to see and the future became vague. I believe he wrote because he needed a way of keeping hope. He could see how the world was becoming apart but he had a need to save all those images about a better world.
He believed that the only way to save us is by loving each other. Through love we can be reeducated and understand the importance of seeing everybody as an equal in order to keep peace and love among us.
The way he wrote and the words he chose to express his feelings are still appealing to our own reality nowadays. He wrote about problems that we still have and do not know how to face.
This is one of the aspects why I would use this poem in a EFL classroom. So students can appreciate how societies still don't learn from their mistakes, and we should start to helping by learning from our own mistakes. Look at ourselves and learn from the best and worts that we can do to each other.
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