When Auden returned from Europe, he found the irst of several apartments in Manhattan in which he lived almost until the end of his life. The Age of Anxiety is among the irst poems in English, perhaps the very irst, to register the fact of the Nazis’ genocidal murder of millions of Jews.Auden For the others, like me, there is only the flash Of negative knowledge, the night when, drunk, one Staggers to the bathroom and stares in the glass To meet one’s madness, when what mother said seems Such darling rubbish and the decent advice Of the liberal weeklies as lost an art. Germany became a democracy - Weimar Republic 3. Democracies in Europe remained intact or took root. End of rule by the Hohenzollerns (Germany), Hapsburgs (Austria), & Romanovs (Russia) B. World War I resulted in an end to the old order A.
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