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Whystan Hugh Auden greatly contributed to the literary world of the twentieth century with his influential works of poetry, prose, and play writing. Auden’s writing style and unusual subject matters were mostly contrived as a result of his travels, political affrications, vast intelligence, experience with homosexuality, and nature. His early upbringing and the works of Sigmund Freud also influenced Auden. Specifically, he changed schools often and his parents pressured him to pursue his studies in the sciences, at this time he discovered and began studying the works of Freud. In 1922 while still attending school, Auden began to question his religious faith, and shortly after Auden was introduced, by a friend, to the idea of writing poetry. Throughout his career, Wystan Hugh Auden created many poems of varying caliber, but several critics agree that his work completed after the mid-nineteen thirties stands out at his finest and most defining. Followers of Auden’s career break his writing up into two periods