W. H. Auden: Poems

What makes the citizen "Unknown" and what makes him "Known".Discuss this statement with suitable extracts from "The Unknown Citizen".

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The American bureaucracy creates a faceless unknown citizen spit out by the indifferent and often cruel machine of government. The "known" citizen is the real person: the individuals behind the statistics.