As it was a period of crisis, dismay and loss of value. Auden and his contemporaries were greatly agitated and tried to diagnose the ills of modern civilization in Marxian and Freudian terms. During this phase Auden visited Belgium, Iceland, Spain and China and examined their political, economic, social problems and conditions and found that…. “Everywhere man was in the quandary.” Auden was like a current of fresh air that refreshes and makes the people breath a long breath; He was in fact a leader who made the people conscious of their problems and tried to pull them out from the abyss of despair and despondency. Auden started on his poetic journey in search of human values.