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The symbolic actions, such as putting crepe bows on doves and packing up the moon, depict the surreal and surrealistic nature of grief. At the heart of the poem lies the devastating realization that the deceased was the speaker's everything - their North, South, East, and West.
14. März 2015 · W. H. Auden - Liedtext: Funeral Blues (Englisch) + Übersetzung auf Deutsch: Die Uhren stoppt, reißt raus das Telefon, / Ein Knochen für den Hund, dann s.
Funeral Blues („Beerdigungs-Blues“) ist ein Gedicht, das der englische Schriftsteller W. H. Auden 1936 veröffentlichte.
Funeral Blues", or "Stop all the clocks", is a poem by W. H. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play The Ascent of F6. Auden substantially rewrote the poem several years later as a cabaret song for the singer Hedli Anderson. Both versions were set to music by the composer Benjamin Britten.
It featured in the romantic comedy movie ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’, an appropriate choice as Auden was gay and the fictional funeral in the film was for a gay man. The poem comprises four ...
Widely accepted as Auden's most iconic poem, 'Funeral Blues' has become one of the most commonly referenced poems ever produced and is one of the defining poetic renderings of grief and loss. The depth of feeling evoked in the poem is equal to that of any writer in Auden's era.
“Funeral Blues” was written by the British poet W. H. Auden and first published in 1938. It's a poem about the immensity of grief: the speaker has lost someone important, but the rest of the world doesn’t slow down or stop to pay its respects—it just keeps plugging along on as if nothing has changed. The speaker experiences this ...
