Auden - Spender

Everytime we read poetry, we feel invited by the author to get to know his/her way of thinking in a certain moment of his/her life. How the inner thoughts and feelings are depicted, etc. However, reading either Steven Spender or W. H. Auden means aquiring elements, within a kind of poetry, which are mainly based on what happens outside their minds. In the poems we have read up to now, both authors tell about devastating issues such as a city in desolation, the feeling of being buried, the postwar situation of a nation, etc.
They nourish their intellectual capacity with elements from the outside; therefore it becomes easier for people to feel touched by their ideas because these are based on events that might be happening to them as well. On one hand, in the poem “September 1, 1939” by Auden we can appreciate how the “developed nations” happen to go to pieces in a war context, caused by corruption, power abuse, etc which turns out with people immersed in a feeling of hopelessness, but also with a sense of rebelion brought up by the fact of rejecting what politicians, as powerful people claim.
On the other hand, in “In no man’s land” by Spender we, as readers can plunge into the author’s mind when refering to a corpse’s state after being buried, how it “feels like” as lond as the time is going by. Both authors give us mirrors for ourseleves and for the society we live in by the poems we have been presented. Why is it that hard to struggle against suffering?