Auden's poem "[Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone]" is .
perhaps one of the best poems that describes a person's love for .
his or her spouse. The emotions evoked in the poem are emotions .
that people have felt at least once in a lifetime. It is these .
emotions that lead the reader towards the central theme of .
mourning the death of a loved one and wanting the people of the .
world to stop what they are doing in order to help mourn the .
passing. By using different aspects of interpretation, mainly the .
use of language and prosody, a complete understanding of the .
sadness and pain suggested in the poem can be observed through the .
usage of different combinations of words.
Throughout the .
entire poem Auden uses imagery to express the pain and sorrow the .
narrator expresses upon losing a loved one. Auden takes common .
situations of little importance in everyday life and makes them .
noticeable in the face of death. For example, the narrator wants .
to "[p]revent the dog from barking with a juicy bone" in line 2. .
The image of an owner giving a dog a bone is one of many natural .
responses taken in order to calm or quiet a dog. In terms of the .
poem, the bone is given to the dog to create a silence that would .
not have been able to exist if the dog had been barking. The .
request for silence is continued into the next line when the .
speaker wants to "[s]ilence the pianos" (line 3). It can be .
difficult to stop all the pianos in the world from playing, so in .
making this request, the narrator is pleading with the world to .
remain as quiet as it can. Additionally, the narrator wants to .
Auden the diversity of his works represent the variation of experiences in his life. ... He was a great physician whom Auden shared a close, affectionate relationship with. ... This poem can be seen as Auden's perspective of his father's profession. ... In addition to promoting this Auden had some more general political opinions. ... Auden influenced his writing. ...
Wystan Hugh Auden was one of the greatest English poets of his time. ... Auden was born in York, England on February 21, 1907. ... In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a journalist. ... Auden's second war poem was "In War Time." ... Auden was the voice of his time. ...
Auden - Epitaph on a Tyrant Wystan Hugh Auden, an English-born American writer, was one of the most important poets of the 20th century. ... Auden was born in York, the son of a physician. ... (Brophy 4) Auden's earliest works are startling in several ways. ... (Callan 64) As a poet, Auden bore some resemblance to T. ... Auden expresses a similar opinion in his poem. ...
Dickinson and Auden use imagery to help the reader visualize the theme of death. ... Auden, on the other hand, uses imagery in a different way. Auden states, "Silence the pianos and with muffled drum bring out the coffin, let the mourners come" and "Put crepe bows around the white necks of the public doves, let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves" (Auden 3-4, 7-8). ... Auden compares the loved one to cardinal directions; he does this to let the reader know whoever passed away was very important to the significant other "He was my North, my South, my East and...
Auden writes the poem, "Funeral Blues," in 1940 (802). In the poem, "Funeral Blues," Auden talks about the loss of a person's loved one and feels as if their life is over. ... Auden talks about a person's grief and creates a very sad and depressing feeling. This is based on Auden's choice of words and sentence structure. ... Auden brings across very strong feeling of grief and depression that can happen after a loved one dies. ...
Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts" exemplifies the human nature of indifference towards various events that the writer has evidenced in the publication. ... Auden applies both Christian and Greek allusions in Musée des Beaux Arts for both plot progression and the formation of irony. ... Auden reminisces on the fact that the early painters, "about suffering they were never wrong," (Auden 1) giving the inference that their art acted as a succinct reflection of the misery facing humanity. ... Additionally, Auden offers hints that only a miracle could offer an inducemen...
Auden, the distinguished poet, playwright and author, was of the opinion that "a poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language" (W.H. Auden n. pag.). In his poem "Lullaby" (Auden 29), there is a clear focus on the expression of love. ... For the purpose of this discussion it is important to note Auden's sexual orientation; he was gay. ... In line 15, the specific reference to the literary character Venus, Auden thus mixes beauty and love with death and the dark side of life. ...
His early upbringing and the works of Sigmund Freud also influenced Auden. ... In 1922 while still attending school, Auden began to question his religious faith, and shortly after Auden was introduced, by a friend, to the idea of writing poetry. ... Continually, Auden uses the metaphors and symbols in the poem. ... Many critics praise Auden's work in "As I Walked Out One Evening," and cite it as a classic piece of Auden's collection. ... The influence of music on Auden's verse . ...
Everybody seems to have an idea of what law is, but Auden ventures out to say nobody really knows what law is. In the poem "Law Like Love," Auden uses his literary techniques differently in the two sections of his poem to show the confusion people have about law. ... Auden's rhyme scheme in this piece help set up the feeling of disarray in the poem. ... In the second section Auden uses one point uses one point of view to explain. ... Audens use of syntax brought out the complexity of the conceptions of law. ...