“Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone” by W. H. Auden 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. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead‚ Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves‚ Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North‚ my South‚ my East and West‚ My working week and
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Performance Analysis: Fantasy in C Major‚ Op. 15 (D. 760) (“Wanderer” Fantasy) Schubert composed the Fantasy in C Major (“Wanderer” Fantasy) in 1822. This fantasy became a milestone in music history because it was the first time when a composer “integrated a four-movement sonata into a single movement.” Schubert did so by matching the sequence of a traditional four-movement sonata (Allegro‚ Adagio‚ Scherzo‚ Finale) to one big sonata form (exposition‚ development‚ recapitulation‚ coda). This exploration
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How do Owen and Auden convey the negative effects of war in their poems ‘Disabled’ and ‘Refugee Blues’’? In the poems Disabled and Refugee Blues‚ the writers‚ Owen and Auden respectively‚ convey the negative effects of war in a variety of ways. Through the use structuring‚ literary and figurative devices‚ Auden subtly shows the negative effects of war‚ whereas Owen does this it more explicitly‚ showing the de-humanizing‚ gruesome effects of war. In the poem Disabled‚ Owen displays the more
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Two poems‚ Roger McGough’s "Being-In-Love"‚ and "Stop All the Clocks" by W.H Auden‚ are similar and different in a variety of ways. Both poems however‚ share the main theme; Love. The first poem‚ explores the idea of ’unrequited love’‚ while the second poem is an expression of grief for someone who has recently died. Roger McGough’s Being-In-Love‚ begins in the first stanza describing this person who he is in love with: "you are so very beautiful". The speaker is presumably a male‚ because of the
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The loss of freedom and individuality in the modern world could be countered by human warmth and compassion but all too often it’s not. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and the selected poetry of W.H. Auden‚ the protagonists routinely lose individuality and freedom but hardly ever is this loss countered by expressions of human warmth and compassion. ‘John the Savage’ enters the Brave New World but loses the freedom and individuality he has grown up with. In the same way ‘Miss Gee’ and the Jewish
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’As I Walked Out One Evening’‚ Auden utilise techniques such as the personfication of time to suggest to the reader that life is a journey and it waits for no one. The use of the first person singular in As Iwalked suggests that it is quite a personal experience‚ however‚ in Victor‚ third person is used to distance the narrator for tge events. W.H. Auden’s ’Victor’ includes three different voice through out the poem‚ his dad‚ the narrator and Victor himself. Auden uses Victor’s dad‚ who has direct
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The first time I read the poem "Musee des Beaux Arts"‚ by W.H. Auden‚ I was under the impression that the poem was a simple interpretation of a painting. In order to fully grasp the significance of the poem‚ I suggest that one become familiar with the history behind not only the myth of Icarus‚ but also Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s painting‚ "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus". A thorough background allowed me to make a more skilled analysis of the painting-poem relationship and how it affected me
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Elizabeth immediately on her beauty and likens it to that of an angel who has been ‘heaven-sent’. Then‚ in the next chapter he describes her soul as ‘saintly’‚ indicating that she is as good as she is beautiful. The depiction of Frankenstein as a ‘wanderer’ is primarily true as he spent the beginning of his life travelling with his parents until they gave up their ‘wandering life’ when his little brother was born. Victor’s mind‚ however‚ never stopped wandering as he describes how he became immersed
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The Average Man W. H. Auden satirizes the United States as an entity‚ which restrains individual advancement. Through depersonalization‚ the government rewards those who actually never do anything. However‚ the "Unknown Citizen" has a monument built as a symbol of his perfection. Thus‚ Auden’s "The Unknown Citizen" shows how the government makes each individual merely a number unless they do not conform to society’s norms. The monument of the "unknown citizen" is erected not to honor the
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W.H. Auden poem “Stop All The Clocks”‚ published in 1938‚ describes the death of a loved one and the enormous funeral which followed. The poem consists of four stanza‚ each containing four lines. Auden’s poem‚ explores the ideas of grief‚ through the first person pronoun “I”‚ in order to engage the reader into his personal tragedy. It’s almost as if each stanza expresses a new emotion‚ with the first stanza expressing grief‚ the second stanza expressing public notification‚ the third stanza expressing
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