Auden's Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue -- Is the future now?

[ananda]

1. Re alienated white male shooters ..

Jeezus, these words call up something about the alienation and shooting
going on in our country these days:

Well, here I am but how, how, asks the visitor,
Strolling through the strange streets, can I start to discover
The fashionable feminine fret, or the form of insult
Minded most by the men? In what myth do their sages
Locate the cause of evil?
How are these people punished?

How, above all, will they end? By any natural
Fascination of frost or flood, or from the artful
Obliterating bang whereby God's rebellious image
After thousands of thankless years spent in thinking about it,
Finally finds a solid
Proof of its independence?