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 his book, notes Auden was a continual reviser, rearranger, and even discarder of his early poems" (143). In "Funeral Blues," W. H. Auden uses several literacy devices such as conflict, rhyme, and symbol.
             Throughout Auden's poem, he deals with conflict between himself and human nature. According to The Longman Writer by Judith Nadell, Linda McMeniman, and John Langan, conflict is "a struggle between individuals, between an individual and some social or environmental force, or within an individual" (614). In his poem, it is obvious that he's having a conflict with death. He talks about the death of a loved ...

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