Indledning
¨Stop all the Clocks is poem of Auden. It was published in 1936. The poem wonderfully describes the feelings associated with grieving. It is about the grief and how it is influence people, what people can feel inside after our loved passed away.
The speaker of this poem is suffered a loss, the speaker world is transformed and stop because of loss. But to everyone else is the same, nothing changes.
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Uddrag
The themes in this poem are grief, silence, isolation and death. All these are tied together within this short poem.
In the text the speaker says that grief over the death of a loved one is like to be separate one from the rest of the world.
In the first lines, the speaker demands that everything must be quiet and that all the mourners come to mourn.
He seeks transformation in the world outside, but he is unable to find it, life in the world is continue. The speaker is isolated in his loss but not everyone respects that fact.
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