"[l]et the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves" in line 8. .
Normally traffic policemen, and policemen in general, wear white .
gloves while on duty. The narrator's insistence that the policemen .
wear black gloves represent his want for everyone to mourn with .
him, even if they do not know who is dead. In both instances, .
Auden and the narrator have two focuses in common--the right for .
one to mourn in peace and the respect that one should be granted .
when he or she is mourning.
The simplicity of the words makes .
this poem extremely easy to comprehend. In fact, the diction .
creates an understandable mood of the reality of a great personal .
loss in life. In calling the person who died "my North, my South, .
my East and West" it is easy to infer that the narrator's life was .
connected to this person, making the person who died the .
narrator's "everything" in the sense of space and the area .
associated with it (line 9). The following line, line 10, .
continues this thought when the speaker says that the person who .
died was his "working weeks and [his] Sunday rest." In stating .
this, it can be concluded that the person who died filled the .
speaker's days in respect to time. Furthermore, the narrator's .
belief "that love would last for ever; [but] I [the narrator] was .
wrong" describes his new belief that now nothing lasts forever and .
that he will never find true or everlasting love ever again (line .
12). It can also be inferred that the speaker's love was not .
enough to keep his spouse alive. Overall, the use of simplistic .
language and everyday words Auden uses in this poem lets the .
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. ...