Our Hunting Fathers

This is a poem by W. H. Auden

Our hunting fathers told the story
Of the sadness of the creatures,
Pitied the limits and the lack
Set in their finished features;
Saw in the lion's intolerant look,
Behind the quarry's dying glare,
Love raging for, the personal glory
That reason's gift would add,
The liberal appetite and power,
The rightness of a god.

Who, nurtured in that fine tradition,
Predicted the result,
Guessed Love by nature suited to
The intricate ways of guilt,
That human ligaments could so
His southern gestures modify
And make it his mature ambition
To think no thought but ours,
To hunger, work illegally,
And be anonymous?

Author's Note

Try to dissect this!

Reviews

[Crimson_Catastrophe]

I like the first stanza a lot, it has good rythm and beat, and it has immaculate imagery.
But the second stanza....
Brutal honesty?
Confusing. And you lost your rythm. :(
But I still liked it.

[Eli]

This poem was actually written by the poet W. H. Auden. I put that in the description. You must have missed it ;)

[Crimson_Catastrophe]

Oh.
It's all good haha.
Gotta love misunderstandings