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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...
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Mar 19, 2009 · There's a beautiful poem by W H Auden from the film "Four Weddings and a Funeral" called "Funeral Blues" and read by John Hannah. It's amazingly powerful. I've read it here against an audio backdrop of "When Darkness Falls" by Secret Garden - which I felt made an evocative combination.
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.
John Hannah, playing Matthew, reads WH Auden's poem "Funeral Blues." The poem was first published by Auden in 1936 and became famous after it was featured in this film. Visit my channel for...
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Stopall the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog frombarking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffleddrum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Letaeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky themessage He Is Dead. Put crepe bows round the white necks of publicdoves, Let the traffic policemen wear black co...
'Funeral Blues', or 'Stop All the Clocks', is an *elegy. It has four, four-line *stanzas which use rhyming couplets. The poem makes its point through the extensive use of *hyperbole. The word 'Blues' in the title links the poem to the blues musical genre and to the expression 'to have the blues'. Blues music grew out ofthe suffering caused by slave...
Knowing a little about how and why a poem works can be helpful toward deepening your understanding and appreciation of it. To that end I've made a few brief notes about the type of poem Funeral Blues is, its structure (how its content/lines are organized) and the principal figures of speech it uses.
*A stanza is the name given to a group of lines in a poem. On a printed page or screen, they are visually separated from other lines by a double space or an indentation. A stanza in a poem is the equivalent of a paragraph in an essay or an article. The word 'verse' and 'stanza' are often used interchangeably. However, there are differences between ...
Several years after it was written the tone and purpose of 'Funeral Blues' morphed remarkably: undergoing a complete transformation. An initial version of the poem originally appeared in a 1936 play: 'The Ascent of F6' which WH Auden co-wrote with playwright Christopher Isherwood for an experimental theatre company they both belonged to, called The...
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The Funeral Poem from Four Weddings and a Funeral. In the movie, during a poignant funeral scene, the character Gareth, portrayed by Simon Callow, recites a beautiful funeral poem that touches the hearts of all who hear it. The poem is titled “Funeral Blues,” written by W.H. Auden. “Funeral Blues” explores the depths of grief and loss ...
W.H. Auden’s ‘Stop all the clocks’ may be one of the most recognisable poems ever written, made famous by its inclusion in the 1994 film ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’.
