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Funeral Blues

W.H. Auden

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1938
Pages
Pages 1

A mourner demands the whole world stop for a death, clocks, telephones, dogs, sun and stars, because the person who was every direction on the compass is gone.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Funeral Blues, W.H. Auden

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