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What is the core message of 'Epitaph on a Tyrant' by Auden? Use quotes and peel paragraph (360 words).

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'Epitaph on a Tyrant', like many of Auden's poems of the 1930s, was inspired by the appalling events of that decade, but it also neatly encapsulates the qualities and behaviour of all tyrants, from Herod to Henry VIII to Hitler.

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