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Things the speaker of the poem wishes for:SACAI NOV 2021/ DBE 2018
• Clocks must stop.
• Telephones must be cut off. Funeral Blues
• Dogs must not bark. W.H. Auden
• Pianos must not play.
1. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
2. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Structure: SACAI NOV 2021 3. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
4. Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
• It has 4 stanzas with four lines
(quatrains) each.
• Irregular iambic pentameter is used. 5. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
• The rhyme scheme is AABB 6. Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
7. Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
8. Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
Function of repetition: 9. He was my North, my South, my East and West,
10. My working week and my Sunday rest,
‘My’ is repeated throughout stanza 3 to show that the person
11. My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
who died was very dear to the speaker. It makes the poem very
12. I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
personal. SACAI NOV 2021
13. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one,
14. Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
15. Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; 15
SACAI NOV 2021: Open question 16. For nothing now can ever come to any good.
The poem shows the devastating effect death has on the people still
living. The speaker grieves the loss of a loved one and feels that the
world should mourn with him for example, he wants time to stand
still. He realises that death means the end of love. He feels hopeless
and that nothing good can ever happen again.
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