Ten signs you're drinking a little too much: Here's how to know when enjoying the odd glass of wine slips into something harmful. Chances are that you consider yourself a moderate drinker. Perhaps you enjoy the odd glass of wine after work, or have a few pints on Saturdays only and abstain for the rest of the week.
In 1985, in an attempt to find meaning in life, she started to write fiction in her spare time. She attended a fiction workshop at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. There she met writer Molly Giles, who gave her advice on a flawed short story with too many inconsistent voices and too many beginnings of stories.
(Remember that Auden was more or less openly gay, at a time when homosexual intercourse carried a long prison sentence for anyone convicted of it). But, in this poem, the delight doesn't come to an end: the pleasure continues, however precariously. That night when joy began. Our narrowest veins to flush, We waited for the flash. Of morning's levelled gun. (On the night when pleasure became intense, and all-enveloping for us; we knew it couldn't last.