The speaker's last line, "For nothing now can ever come to any
             good", summarizes and depicts the narrator's state of emotions
             towards the death of a lost loved one in W.H. Auden's elegy, "Funeral
             Blues" (16). Auden creates a mood and setting of despair and death, almost
             as if he wants the reader to feel grief or mournful about person who has
             passed, although, this person is of no relevance to them. To create this
             sense of feeling, Auden establishes the speaker's sorrow and hopelessness
             using analytic meanings of symbolism and hyperbolas.
             Auden's use of symbolism prevails in "Funeral Blues." He uses
             symbolism to connect the readers to the overall theme of death. Ordering to
             the unknown audience to "stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone," the
             speaker wishes that time would stand, as if to catch his bearings and
             deceive himself that the passing of his dearest is not permanent and
             irreversible (1). The order to "cut off the telephone," symbolizes the
             communication, which has now been severed between the speaker and the loved
             In stanza 3, the narrator indicates the guidance and wisdom his love
             has given to him, explaining how the lost one was his "my North, my South,
             my East and West" (9). The use of the cardinal directions symbolize the
             direction and advice the one who has passed has given to the speaker of the
             poem. The narrator, again, utilizes time to describe the love of his life,
             "My working week and my Sunday rest My noon, my midnight, my talk, my
             song;/ I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong" (Lines 10-12).
             The reader portrays the loved one as never being absent from the speaker's
             life. From, week to weekends, noon to night, to the words and songs that
             the narrator speaks, in all, consists of the loved one who has passed away.
             The repetition of the word "My" helps the reader understand the continual
             thoughts, words, and actions, in which, the speaker bases his l...