Critical Appreciation of Audens Funeral Blues :: essays research papers

Although it is not seen at first, Funeral blues can be visualised and understood in many different ways. Auden could be writing closely the death of a humans figure, as he writes about white necks of the public doves and the traffic policemen.Another interpretation is that Auden wrote this poem about his loss of faith in God. This would apologize the use of a capital H is ?He Is idle?. A reference to God could also be found in the line my Sunday rest (Sunday being the Sabbath day).Although these ideas could be equally argued, I still believe that Auden wrote this poem sequence mourning the loss of his lover. It carries a bad and heartbreaking tone that puts Auden as the speaker. Being a homosexual would explain why the subject of his poem is a man. The title of the poem includes the condition ?funeral?, immediately indicating death or loss. In the first stanza Auden makes use of whole caboodle like stop, cut, pr tied(p)t and silence ? these words all signify ending. ? await all the clocks, cut off the telephones?, this describes how Auden wanted to be excluded from the world while he was mourning his loss.?Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead / Scribbling on the dispose the message He Is lifeless?. Auden uses personification in these first deuce lines of the second stanza by giving the aeroplanes human characteristics to inform everyone that ?He Is Dead?. This man meant so much to Auden that he wanted his death to be recognized and written in the sky for all to see.In the trinity stanza, Auden writes He was my North, my South, my East and West. This man was everything to Auden, he was Audens world. It is written in the third stanza ?I thought love would last for ever I was wrong?. This demonstrates that even though love is meant to last forever, it can only be carried to the weighty and no farther.