“The Relevance of Sloth in Poetry” Many poems written include some of these same characteristics that help to find a theme within it. One main aspect of these poems is the portrayal of a character or characters acting sloth. Sloth is the aversion to work or lack of exertion. It could also be defined as laziness or indolence. Examples of this can be found repeatedly throughout great poet’s work such as W.H. Auden’…showed first 75 words of 936 total…

…showed last 75 words of 936 total…is that they are bad people, but most are not. The setting in “Musee des Beaux Arts” demonstrates that they are indolent and that’s how Auden gets the theme of sloth across. David R. Slavitt travels a little bit different of a path by implying that people would be too lazy to save themselves and or to try to earn their mark upon society. Rather than taking the shortcut and being lazy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**