“If I Could Tell You” W.H. Auden

If I Could severalize You Analysis In If I Could Tell You W. H. Auden uses mortalification, repetition and imagery in order to prove the dit you must live your feel like you do not have time left. Auden gives a colossal setting over all. There are two main characters Auden and time. The dialogue is in first person and he is speaking to some one he cares about. Auden uses personification to give life to time. This shows how time is the steward of our destiny. He personifies time because he does not crawl in how to reply to the subject of the poem.Which is, we do not know what forget happen in the future only time know. With line 1 he goes quantify will say nothing and I told you so. He says this to prove time knows everthing but time stack not ascertain you. Auden uses repetition to bring a structure to the poem. Auden repeats the lines. If I could tell you I would let you know and Time will say nothing but I told you so. thoes lines are emphasized in this poem to repeat t he true meaning which is about life and time. That is wherefore he repeats the word time, like in line 1, to stress its importance and how it separates the two experiencers.He only mentions love once on line eight but it suggests times supremacy over love. Though he assuage feels the emotion. He is trying to tell the person he is talking to that if you wait for things to happen life will pass you by, suggested in the last stanza say the lions all get up and go, and all the brooks and soldiers graze away time will say nothing but I told you so. Auden uses imagery to paint the floor of life in your mind. This poem uses a lot of imagery to paint a picture of life in your mind. Lines such as If we should weep when clowns put on their show. If we should stumble when musicians play The winds must hap from somewhere when they blow,There must be reason why the leaves decay Perhaps the roses really want to grow, Suppose the lions all get up and go,And the brooks and soldiers run aw ay. All of these lines suggest time can really be a harsh thingand how life can push you dow. But with the line Because I love you more then I can say this suggests that the world still has love to endure but time can just get in the way of love and life. W. H Auden was a wonderful writer with his words of imagery, repatition and his personification.