Friday, March 18, 2016
Stop all the Clocks
In the poem "Stop all the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone" by W.H. Auden, it seems as if someone has died. The speaker seems to be a woman who just lost her husband as in the very last line of the poem she says "For nothing now can ever come to any good." Something that only a wife or husband would say about each other. Also, when the speaker says "He is dead." in the second stanza, leads me to assume that it's a woman talking about her husband. The speaker is speaking to an audience, maybe her friends or family. The speakers attitude is very upset, depressed. As she has just lost her husband. The setting switches I believe in this poem, as I believe that it starts out in her house and then maybe to a funeral home. In the first stanza she says "Stop the dog from barking" and "Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come." The dog would be at her house, the coffin would be at the funeral home. The situation is that this woman just lost her husband and so she is very upset over this. The tone of this poem is somber, very depressing. As she mentions that nothing will ever be any good, and that she "thought love would last forever." She is depressed about the loss of her husband. The theme of this is grief, or even depression. I come to this finding because of the speakers tone and the way that she is describing things as the speaker is making it seem as if her world is coming to an end.
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