Funeral Blues "Funeral Blues", or "Stop all the clocks", is a poem by W. H. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play The Ascent of F6. Auden substantially rewrote the poem several years later as a cabaret song for the singer Hedli Anderson. Both versions were set to music by the...
大家好,我是Shawn老师,今天给大家带来的这首诗叫做 Funeral Blues,也被称作 Stop all the clocks’这是作家W.H.Auden于1938年发表的诗作。但是这首诗在现代被人们熟知是得益于一部电影 ‘四个葬礼一个婚礼 ’,在其中的一场葬礼上,由演员John Hannah朗诵。 这首诗的主题是依赖、死亡以及悲痛。由于挚爱的去世,...
Who did Auden write '~'Funeral Blues'~' for? ''Funeral Blues'' was originally written for a play that W.H. Auden wrote with Christopher Isherwood in 1936. However, after rewriting the last three verses of the original poem, the new version of the poem was written into a cabaret song ...
"Stop all the clocks" (also known as "Funeral Blues") is an enduring short poem of four quatrains that resists facile interpretations. Its first two stanzas originally appeared (on pages 116-17) in The Ascent of F6, a play written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood. Discussed here ...
firststanza:tostopallthingsofdailylifebecauseofthedeeplysorrow.•secondstanza:thedescribeofsolemnatmosphereandtoexpressthesorrowofthepoet.•thirdstanza:totelluswhat'stherelationshipbetweenthedeadandhim.(lovers)•laststanza:toexpressthedeepsorrowandgriefFuneralBluesisapoemthatbereadinthefuneraltomournforhis...
Widely accepted as Auden's most iconic poem, 'Funeral Blues' has become one of the most commonly referenced poems ever produced and is one of the defining poetic renderings of grief and loss. The depth of feeling evoked in the poem is equal to that of any writer in Auden's era. The ...
HespenthislastyearsinNewYork,atOxfordandinVienna,Austria(wherehedied).Hispoetrygainednewnoticeinrecentyears,thankstothefilmFourWeddingsandaFuneral,whichfeaturesAuden‘spoem“FuneralBlues”(“Stopalltheclocks,cutoffthetelephone”).HisworksincludePoems(1930),Look,Stranger!(1936,alsoknownasOnThisIsland)andThe...
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) might be best known for his love poem “Funeral Blues” (Four Weddings and a Funeral, etc.), but at heart he was a poet of diplomacy. He spent the first half of his life in England, moved to the U.S. in 1939 and spent the rest in New York. But it...
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN – FUNERAL BLUES . .. … Wystan Hugh Auden Funeral blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come... poems...
Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that represent Auden’s lighter, comic side, giving a fuller picture of the range of his genius. Also new are brief notes explaining references that may have become obscure to younger generations of readers and a revised ...