
WH Auden
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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I Don't Feel and You Can Switch Off Now
i don't feel i can go without doing a little bit about funeral blues, which is that poem that appeared in four weddings and uneral just because it's the greatest her. Funeral blues was written in 19 30 eght, very close to when muse de bais was written. But they have very different messages, it seems. The speaker of the poem seems to expect the whole world to stop for he's personal tragedy. There's no moderation. Itony no greater context. Everyone has to feel this pain. Why wouldn't they? It's so enormous. This is a sort of hymn to subjectivity, i suppose you would say. And also, i do like
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