Download W H Auden Funeral Blues Background. The poem is four stanzas long. Wh auden in his own words. the best reading of it i have ever.

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Funeral blues or stop all the clocks is a poem by w. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of w. The first, and less widely known, version of the poem, written and published in 1936, has five stanzas.

An early version was published in 1936, but the poem in its final, familiar form was first published in the year's poetry (london, 1938).

Strange, when you consider the width of his poetic range, that my two favourite auden poems are both elegies. Although auden does not clearly state about whom the poem is written. In the poem, funeral blues, auden talks about the loss of a person's loved one and feels as if their life is over. We hope that you haven't experienced the loss of a loved one in your life.