The purpose of Auden's requirements
W.H.Auden was one of the most influential figures on the 20th century literature. Even he was very polifacetical (he wrote novels, plays, operas, etc) today is best regarded for his poetry. The piece of work I am going to analyze is the poem “Stop all the Clocks”, which has a very traditional metrical pattern (AABB) and in which the author opted for an accessible language and concepts in consequence of the deep but totally human understandable feeling he tries to express. Henceforth, I will focus on how this feeling of sorrow is conveyed by the imperatives, which structure the poem and act as the backbone of it.
The first stanza opens with imperatives, what will be a continuum throughout the poem. When …show more content…
He personifies the aeroplanes by wanting them to be “moaning overhead / Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead”; even the machines must feel it. Also, “He Is Dead” is a very flat message, each word started with capital letters so to be more emphatic and definite: “He Is Dead” is like a resounding slab flung to the readers and to the world: it is like an overwhelming truth that cannot be withheld. The necessity of spreading his feelings to everyone is shown in: “Put crêpe bows round with necks of the / Public doves, / Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves”. The “public doves” are everywhere so it is a metaphor to englobe the entire world. Even these doves and the policemen (state workers that have a regular unchangeble uniform) must grieve for the person he loves wearing mourning clothes which apprise of his death “bows / black cotton …show more content…
The imperatives in the first stanza order to be quiet while in the second stanza they order to spread the author emotions. The lack of imperatives in the third one is also significative, as the author in fact stops the development of his desires to refer how much he loved the deceased. The forth stanza retake the imperatives to end the trajectory of his mood: once the entire world is mourning for his lover is time to keep it stored because there is no reason to continue existing: “For nothing can ever come to any
W.H.Auden was one of the most influential figures on the 20th century literature. Even he was very polifacetical (he wrote novels, plays, operas, etc) today is best regarded for his poetry. The piece of work I am going to analyze is the poem “Stop all the Clocks”, which has a very traditional metrical pattern (AABB) and in which the author opted for an accessible language and concepts in consequence of the deep but totally human understandable feeling he tries to express. Henceforth, I will focus on how this feeling of sorrow is conveyed by the imperatives, which structure the poem and act as the backbone of it.
The first stanza opens with imperatives, what will be a continuum throughout the poem. When …show more content…
He personifies the aeroplanes by wanting them to be “moaning overhead / Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead”; even the machines must feel it. Also, “He Is Dead” is a very flat message, each word started with capital letters so to be more emphatic and definite: “He Is Dead” is like a resounding slab flung to the readers and to the world: it is like an overwhelming truth that cannot be withheld. The necessity of spreading his feelings to everyone is shown in: “Put crêpe bows round with necks of the / Public doves, / Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves”. The “public doves” are everywhere so it is a metaphor to englobe the entire world. Even these doves and the policemen (state workers that have a regular unchangeble uniform) must grieve for the person he loves wearing mourning clothes which apprise of his death “bows / black cotton …show more content…
The imperatives in the first stanza order to be quiet while in the second stanza they order to spread the author emotions. The lack of imperatives in the third one is also significative, as the author in fact stops the development of his desires to refer how much he loved the deceased. The forth stanza retake the imperatives to end the trajectory of his mood: once the entire world is mourning for his lover is time to keep it stored because there is no reason to continue existing: “For nothing can ever come to any