Jones claims Old English represented….. to Auden
Passion and Anxiety
Auden’s first play called
Paid on Both Sides
Paid on Both sides uses Old English language and forms to….
reference the Blood Feuds of Old Heroic Poetry
Jones Sites the coined word “Gun Anger” as derived from…
“ecghete” or “sword-hate
The title of Paid alludes to a line from…
Beowulf
the most persistant allusion to Old English poetry in Paid is…
in the metre, the stressed syllables of the lines.
Jones claims Auden used Old English to express what in his poetry?
the difficulties of accepting his sexuality