At the beginning of the poem, "As I Walked Out One Evening," we can see symbols of love and patriotism. Poet W.H. Auden writes “And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing. Love has no ending" (As I Walked Out One Evening, Auden). The lovers are the young and hopeful singing in the night of their lovers, life and country by the eternal river. Reinforcing long lasting love with images of this never ending love “till the oceans are hung up to dry and salmon sing in the street.” Also, “till china meets Africa” can be till the continents shift together or to the fact that around this time Japan was at war with China and Italy was conquering Ethiopia (As I Walked Out One Evening, Auden). These 2 countries would become 2 of the main countries in the Axis of Powers behind Germany. “The years shall run like rabbits," quick and multiplying as the world heads for turmoil. “For in my arms I hold the Flower of the Ages, And the first love of the world (As I Walked Out One Evening, Auden).” Life is the one thing that everyone hold dear and will fight for. Each person understands how life is precious and fragile and should be held on to. As war approached led by Germany, Time grew near. The world whirred and chimed, war and Germany were coming. Britain and France, at the Munich Conference gave up Sudetenland at the Munich Conference to appease Germany (The Brief American Pageant, Eighth Edition, Kennedy, Cohen, Piehl, 564). The half truce reached between these countries was only a naked vulnerable justice (As I Walked Out One Evening, Auden, 20). Within 6 months Germany broke the shaky peace by taking the rest of Czechoslovakia, interrupting the kiss of peace (The Brief American Pageant, Eighth Edition: Kennedy, Cohen, Piehl). ”Vaguely life leaks away as the smaller unprotected countries fall to the Axis Powers" (As I Walked Out One Evening, Auden). Winter falls on Europe and Germany halts his dances of battle (As I Wal