“The Unknown Citizen” “ The Unknown Citizen” is a very suitable name for this poem. It has many things in common with Harrison Bergeron and Saboteur. Where every citizen in the society lives exactly the same, or where there is nothing that sets the citizens apart from each other. The reader may gather many thoughts about this. Therefore one might conclude that the “Unknown Citizen” is every person that lives in that society. “He was found …showed first 75 words of 259 total…

…showed last 75 words of 259 total…did the same thing, which Auden might have been, referring to our society today. The “Unknown Citizen” has a great deal in common with the story “Harrison Bergeron” in the sense that everyone is the same. In Harrison Bergeron, everyone had handicaps on them that made them equal no one was unique. As in the “Unknown Citizen” Auden describes the “Unknown Citizen” as very common, he does every thing that society expects him to do.