The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden

As was discussed in class, I agree that it seems as if the poem is talking about some fictitious "model citizen". He exactly that--a model citizen, a figment of the imagination created for society to emulate. At the end of the day, however, he is still very unreal. It is our flaws that make us human, and a person like this would have been like a robot, an alien or a Stepford wife. This poem seemed so conspiracy theory type, the kind they make into movies, starring Tom Cruise as a man living in a fictitious society.....