The tittle of this blog post may confuse you but that is not what this is about.
My favorite poet is W.H. Auden. Why? My research paper is about him and there is not much criticism to be found. The poem I like the best from W.H. Auden is not, "As I Walked Out One Evening", but "Funeral Blues". "Funeral Blues" is a lovely poem about a person who has just lost a loved one, particularly a lover, wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc. After having lost a loved one a person wonders how can the world keep going after a tragedy o this magnitude has completely changed the world to them, they just want the whole universe to stop what they are doing. That is totally understandable.
I love that poem you can actually relate to how he feel losing a love one. I know I can and sometimes it hurts.
ReplyDeleteThat's true when a person loses a loved we often think the world is nots for not caring about one individual dying but in reality life continues and no one is going to stop for something that doesn't matter.
ReplyDeleteIt is understandable, but I don't like it. This is not the type of theme I like. The one thing is that there are many ways to connect to this poem. For example, if one of my little sisters ever (hopefully not), die before me, I think I would say this because they are my World.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a poem that everyone would want read at their funeral. It's so deep and the third stanza is the best.
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