It is hard to tell which time period Auden is exactly writing about. At one point, he speaks of the empty trains while another part he writes Caesar handing in his slip of resignation and stepping down. It seems as if Auden is jumping from topic to topic because then he writes about reindeer frolicking around in the fields.
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Tommy I also looked at this poem. I was going to pick it until I saw you take it. I really liked how you looked at this poem and it was a good response that you wrote after reading it.
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