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When we delved into Auden's poetry written during his Austrian days, his ecological concerns emerged. Emig has paid attention to the ecological aspect in Auden's poetry. However his judgment of Auden's stance in regard to ecology—“Auden is anthropocentric”—is true as far as English and American Auden is concerned. Austrian Auden (1958-1973) expanded his perspective to include a new concern for the environment. Poems in this last period show over and over again, though humans may be superior in intellect and reason, that animals do not mistreat the planet. They cause less damage, act more consistently, and are thus a better inhabitants of planet earth than humans. Considering many poems which showed ecological concerns, Auden moved on a path from “a selfish pink liberalist” in the 1930s through “a secular greyish Christian” in the 1940s to “a selfless light-green ecologist” in the 1970s. By metamorphosing from a anthropocentric, complicated, academic poet to a lyrical, emotional, issue-driven poet, Auden added to his spectrum with a warning about how humans had treated their ecosystem. These last poems are significant precisely because he had skills to take such a new tack, and chose to do so at the end of his life.