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Poet: W. H. Auden
Poem: Funeral Blues
Comment 30 of 30, added on July 17th, 2009 at 6:17 PM.
This is a beautiful poem and is going to be in my upcoming english exam so I have an analysis. He wants to deprive everyone and everything of any happiness or enjoyment e.g take the juicy bone away from the dog. He wants to silence everything except for the aeroplane because he wants to show how important this person's death is. The aeroplane also circles like a vulture would circle around a dead body. The word He has been put in capitals to show how important this dead person is. All in all this poem is trying to express the grief the person feels.
Natasha from South Africa
Comment 29 of 30, added on January 4th, 2007 at 1:24 PM.
Hi anyone got any degree level comments on this poem. Need to know if it is political in subject in any way as was written in the 1930's which is the period attributed to high political poetry particularly for audens work.
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Comment 28 of 30, added on July 13th, 2006 at 5:12 AM.
Funeral Blues is about someone (maybe Wystan Hugh Auden) losing a loved one. It is a poem of passionate love for someone, for when they pass everything must stop as they did, die and never start again. After each stanza (paragraph) you the reader feels more involved and feel more grief for the person lost, it is a time of mourning.Throughout the Funeral Blues W.H.Auden hasn't used a lot of alliteration but in this poem it works out perfectly. Instead he has used assonance to grab the attention of the reader/listener.
The feeling that W.H.Auden wants us as the reader to feel as we comprehend the poem is death at it's worst, to feel like nothing good will ever come again. This is best felt at the end of the poem when he says 'For nothing now can ever come to any good.'
He also wants us to feel and know what he must have felt with love never lasting for ever when he says this paragraph:
'He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my realk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong'
In my person feelings with losing someone i loved all i wanted to happen was everything stop i didn't want the world to wake and see me in such pain. For everything to just wither up and never come back out.
I believe that this poem is the best poem Auden has every written and i believe that many people would think the same, as it is worded in such a lucid manner and expressed so sensitively to he's audience.
R.I.P Wystan Hugh Auden
Always thinking of your emasculate work when i listen and read this poem.
Natasha from Australia
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This is a beautiful poem and is going to be in my upcoming english exam so I have an analysis. He wants to deprive everyone and everything of any happiness or enjoyment e.g take the juicy bone away from the dog. He wants to silence everything except for the aeroplane because he wants to show how important this person's death is. The aeroplane also circles like a vulture would circle around a dead body. The word He has been put in capitals to show how important this dead person is. All in all this poem is trying to express the grief the person feels.
Natasha from South Africa