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GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 30

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Identify the title of the poem in which the following lines appear:
“He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint
For in everything he did he served the greater community.”

  1. “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
  2. “The Unknown Citizen”
  3. “In Praise of Limestone”
  4. “On this Island”

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Correct answer: (B) “The Unknown Citizen”

Explanation

These lines are the opening of W. H. Auden's satirical poem “The Unknown Citizen”.