FUNERAL BLUES
The poem "Funeral Blues", written by W. H. Auden, is based on a loved one who is deceased. The poem is written based on nontraditional and traditional elements. This poem is also based on several different themes such as death, love, order and disorder, and also meaning of love. Throughout the poem W. H. Auden mixes his stanzas with some words that rhyme and rarely some that don't. "This coupling of ordered and unordered patterns symbolize the speakers efforts, and final failure, to reestablish order in his life after suffering the devastating loss of a loved on" (Wilson 142). At first, I couldn't distinguish if Auden was talking about the actual loss of a loved one to death or the actual loss of a loved one due to a break up. "...it is not clear that this is a conventional elegy: Auden may simply be mourning the end of a relationship, not death" (Kushner 148). It was also hard to distinguish if he was talking about himself or somebody else. "Although Auden does not clearly state about whom the poem is written, one can gather that speaker loved this person dearly" (Kushner 148). This poem was actually a revised poem of "Another Time" that was written by Auden along time ago. Wendy Perkins states, "George T. Wright, in h
Auden uses several literacy devices such as conflict, rhyme, and symbol. Your life doesn't have to end because the love that you were suppose to share forever has ended. In the last stanza, Auden tells his listeners,'The stars are not wanted now: put out every one,Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;For nothing now can ever come to any good' (13-16). By his loved one dieing, he has lost that love that was suppose to last forever. Both of these two lines symbolize the public notice that someone has recently lost the love of a loved one. He feels as if he was lied to, as if death wasn't suppose to happen because his love was suppose to last forever. Auden states,'He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My moon, my midnight, my talk, my song,I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. Auden uses several literacy devices such as conflict, rhyme, and symbol. In his poem, it is obvious that he's having a conflict with death. He wants everything in life to just stop going on like people to stop talking and being happy with one another. In line two, he writes "Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone," which symbolizes happiness. "I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong," (line 12) clearly states his feelings.
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