Auden states that “Proper Names are poetry in the raw.”[8] Naming, that is, is an act of poesis, of poetic making or creation.[9] Proper Names, for Auden, cannot be replaced with some other, equally suitable, name. There is only one; there are no synonyms. (One need only glance at the list “Bilbo Baggins; Frodo Baggins; Meriadoc Brandybuck; Peregrin Took; Samwise Gamgee” to see that Auden is correct in his evaluation.)
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