What is the poem that starts Stop all the clocks?

Funeral Blues
‘Funeral Blues’, also known as ‘Stop all the Clocks’, is perhaps now most famous for its recitation in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, but its first audience encountered it as part of a play. Seamus Perry discusses the poem and its place in The Ascent of F6, co-authored by W H Auden and Christopher Isherwood.

What are the words to the poem Stop all the clocks?

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

Who did Auden write stop the clocks for?

Christopher Isherwood
He gave this poem the name Funeral Blues, and it was written and published in 1936, with 5 stanzas. He followed it up with a 1938 version of 4 stanzas. It was originally written as a poem of mourning for a political leader as part of the verse play The Ascent of F6 which Auden wrote with Christopher Isherwood.

Why did Auden write Stop all the clocks?

Curiously, ‘Stop All the Clocks’ began life as a piece of burlesque sending up blues lyrics of the 1930s: Auden originally wrote it for a play he was collaborating on with Christopher Isherwood, The Ascent of F6 (1936), which wasn’t entirely serious (although it was billed as a tragedy).

What type of poetry did WH Auden write?

Auden’s poetry is considered versatile and inventive, ranging from the tersely epigrammatic to book-length verse, and incorporating a vast range of scientific knowledge.

Why did WH Auden write Stop all the clocks?

Was Auden married?

Erika Mannm. 1935–1969
W. H. Auden/Spouse

W H Auden married the German Jewish actress and writer Erika Mann, the daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann, on 15 June 1935. At the time, Auden was teaching English at the Downs School in Herefordshire.

Where did Auden live in America?

Oxford1972–1973
Austria
W. H. Auden/Places lived

What did W H Auden mean by stop all the clocks?

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

How to stop the clocks in a poem?

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.

What does stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone mean?

W. H. Auden’s poem, “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” conveys the meaning of overwhelming grief, tragic loss, and an unrelenting pessimism best exemplified in the last lines, “For nothing now can ever come to any good.” The tone of the poem is that of a melancholy sadness

How to stop all the clocks in Funeral Blues?

1 Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, 2 Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, 3 Silence the pianos and with muffled drum. 4 Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. 5 Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead. 6 Scribbling on the sky the message ‘He is Dead’. 7 Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,