Textual integrity is the way in which the poet uses context, form, language and purpose to produce a piece that has meaning and value, in other words, it is something that can resonate, move or change the mind of the audience. In Auden's poems “Spain” and “In Memory of WB Yeats”, he focuses on several themes, including: how his poetry and that of others can reveal reality, the modern horrors present in his time (death and suffering at cause of the war), as he does all this by referring it to everyday man. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay Spain begins with Auden talking about "yesterday" and all the great feats that humans have accomplished. These are the expansion into "China along the trade routes", the great conquests and explorations accomplished by the "navigators", the man-made wonders of wood and stone of the "forest-built chapel", and "the carving of angels" and the growth of modernity and industrialization creating “railroads in the colonial desert”. But this “yesterday” is now over and now “today the fight” is upon us. Auden talks about 3 main characters, they are; a poet, a scientist and the poor people. The poet wants to be able to see this terror of war and write about it. The scientist spends most of his time busy with his various projects, but it is above all the lives of his friends that question him. The poor spend most of their time in their “fireless lodges” thinking about how “our day is our loss.” Spain then turns to tomorrow, a hopeful time filled with romantic love, research, exploration and simple things in life like “Walks by the Lake”. This great imaginable thought is then quickly destroyed when the realities of the brutal present are brought to life. “Today” death and suffering are realities and there are not many things that make life worth living. Spain's future is uncertain, it has had a glorious past but may not have a glorious future. In memory of WB Yeats are Auden's thoughts on a poet's art and the role of poetry during a time of misfortune as well as in the normal struggles of life. The poem is organized into 3 sections, the first is a section where Auden mourns the death of Yeats, the second section is where Auden comments on Yeats' poetry, the third section is an appeal to other people and poets. The first section uses the environment to reflect Yeats' death, such as "streams were frozen", "airports were almost deserted", and how "snow disfigured public statues" highlighting how due to Yeats' death everything became stopped. At the same time “wolves ran through the evergreen forests” suggesting that even though the poet is dead, his poetry is not. the disadvantage of this situation is that Yeats can no longer speak for himself and has now become "his admirer", even his poems are now "scattered" like ashes and are misinterpreted. But the common man does not become effective, the middlemen scream and the poor continue to suffer. Auden divides his thoughts between 2 elements, one is that the death of a poet can go unnoticed and be almost completely insignificant, the other is that the death should be a national crisis. The second section is about how Yeats was shaped: "Mad Ireland has hurt you in poetry / Now Ireland has its madness and its calm time" reinforcing the point that Auden still believes that even though Yeats is dead , his poetry lives on. The third section is a call. The “Irish vessel” has been “emptied of its poetry,” yet the “dogs of Europe bark,” suggesting that even though Yeats is dead, the war still rages..