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A Study Guide for W. H. Auden's "Funeral Blues," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for W. H. Auden's "Funeral Blues" - Gale
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Funeral Blues
W. H. Auden
1936
Introduction
The Auden poem called Funeral Blues
first appeared in The Ascent of F6, Auden’s 1936 play written with his longtime collaborator Christopher Isherwood. This version of the poem was known by its first line: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Later, Auden discarded the last three stanzas of the poem and added three new ones and the title, Funeral Blues.
The rewritten stanzas converted a musical comedy piece to a melancholy lament. Auden offered this revised version as a cabaret song, which was set to music by Benjamin Britten and sung by soprano Hedli Anderson for the stage. In 1940 Auden included Funeral Blues
in Another Time, a collection of his
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