Essays on Funeral Blues

Grief is the human response to traumatic loss of a loved one. Funeral Blues by Wystan Hugh Auden is a poem about how he deals with the loss of his friend. The theme of this poem is denial, and isolation, and the tone of it...

Both W. H Auden and Tony Harrison in their poems Funeral Blues and Long Distance (II) describe the impact of losing a loved one in their individual way. Tony Harrison uses the lost of his parents to illustrate how some may cope with grief irrationally....

Everyone has feelings. Whether it be sad feelings or happy feelings. We all express those feelings emotionally or physically. But how do poets express these feelings onto paper? Imagery is a literary term that is used for description and language that appeals to our five...

Wystan Hugh Auden is a poet, playwright, author, and a lead influencer of literature of the 20th century. Auden’s work is mysterious, and dark. Additionally, some of his literature is also mournful. One of Auden’s less commonly known poems “Funeral Blues” is clearly more sad...

Sonnet 18 and funeral blues are two amazing poems. Both poems have factors of love but project it in a different way. In funeral blues, it shows some factors of death and unhappiness, compared to sonnet 18 which is very clearly a love poem. Sonnet...