W.H. AUDEN : "O Where are You going?""Is there any relation between form of this poem and its content?Here is the poem :"O where are you going?"...

During his career, W. H. Auden recognized the negative factors
of the times in which he lived; he acknowledged the nearing of death wittily and without panic,
keeping faith with an ideal of civility and civilization.  Critics have termed him "a beacon of
light in the darkness he sometimes saw spreading."

W. H. Auden's "O
Where are You Going?" is a dialectic poem that examines this darkness that the poet perceives in
the hearts and minds of men.  The poem's form does befit the content as it is a dialectic, and,
as such, the last lines balance the opposing arguments. For instance, the first three stanzas
pose the dark response to the ventures of the hopeful while the last stanza answers this
pessimisim with faith and "a beacon of light"--"as he left them there, as he left them
there."

Thus, the last stanza answers the first three and with the
movement of the vowel sounds, the active participant rejects the fears of the passive and
leaves.  In his movement, he may, in fact, escape while the passive who fearfully remain may
become the victims of what they have most
feared.