In relation to Auden's "Letter to Lord Byron," discuss how modern times have a particular approach to poetry.

I think that the particular approach to poetry in the
modern setting as represent in Auden's work owes much of its growth to Romantic thinkers
like Byron.  If Auden's work is taken to be a representation of the modern approach to
poetry, it is a form that uses the subjective understanding of the world to better
understand it.  In this, the subjective becomes a means to grasp the universal.  In
this, Byron's belief is echoed and the Romantic thinkers are validated.  Auden is able
to turn much of the poem about his own sense of self to his own experiences and then
broaden that to a larger configuration into which he and Byron are
thrust.

Part of this need to absorb consciousness through
the internal subjective realm is important because there are so many modern constructs
that are confusing to the individual so that the only way to make sense of them is to
assess them internally and to hope for some external condition.  In this approach, Auden
is able to use the Romantic stress on the individual sense of self to make sense of the
economic condition and political state that surrounds him.  While Byron might not have
been dealing with such tremendous challenges, Auden is able to use subjectivism in order
to both forge a link to the Romantic writer and attempt to construct some level of order
in a world that lacks it.  In the end, this is how Auden's "Letter to Lord Byron" takes
an approach of integrating modern perspectives to poetic
composition.