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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...
The poem is full of imagery of death and mourning, such as the coffin, the black cotton gloves, and the crepe bows. The speaker also wishes to destroy all that is beautiful and life-giving, such as the stars, the moon, the sun, and the ocean.
It was meant to be a satiric piece lamenting the loss of a political figure appearing in the play. From then onwards, the text underwent several changes to become a four-stanza poem comprising four lines each. The text is referenced often in film and TV, such as in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Gavin and Stacey (2007). Auden rewrote ...
WH Auden's 'Funeral Blues' poem, also known as (aka) 'Stop All the Clocks', is one of the most loved and most read at memorial services. It's been that way ever since it was movingly recited by actor John Hannah in the enormously successful 1994 English romantic comedy: 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'.
The poem experienced renewed popularity after being read in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), which also led to increased attention on Auden's other work. It has since been cited as one of the most popular modern poems in the United Kingdom.
“Funeral Blues” was written by the British poet W. H. Auden and first published in 1938. It's a poem about the immensity of grief: the speaker has lost someone important, but the rest of the world doesn’t slow down or stop to pay its respects—it just keeps plugging along on as if nothing has changed.
Funeral BluesWH AudenStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring ...
