's four-part cycle
9-342-2 is the second part of Leonard Bernstein's four-part cycle, titled "The Age of Anxiety." It is a symphony for piano and orchestra based on the eponymous 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning poem by W.H. Auden. This movement is ultimately the longest of the four parts and is divided into four separate sections, each of which serve to characterize different aspects of Auden's poem. It is a dramatic, lyrical movement that utilizes the piano to create a counterpoint to the orchestra around it. The movement ends with a quote from Dame Julian of Norwich's Showings, one of the first books written by a woman in the English language.