I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade.So begins Auden’s “September 1, 1939”. What is the meaning of the “word in italics?

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I sit in one of the <em>dive</em>s On Fifty Second Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade.<br />So begins Auden’s “September 1, 1939”.<br /> What is the meaning of the “word in italics?






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