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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message 'He is Dead'. Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Funeral Blues (”Stop all the clocks”) Lyrics. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum. Bring out...
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum. Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead. Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Funeral Blues", or "Stop all the clocks", is a poem by W. H. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play The Ascent of F6. Auden substantially rewrote the poem several years later as a cabaret song for the singer Hedli Anderson. Both versions were set to music by the composer Benjamin Britten.
Auden wrote the poem ‘Funeral Blues,’ also known as ‘Stop All the Clocks’ for the play written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood entitled The Ascent of F6, published in 1936. In the context of the play, this poem serves as a mourning song for a political leader who appears in the play.
WH Auden's 'Funeral Blues' poem, also known as (aka) 'Stop All the Clocks', is one of the most loved and most read at memorial services. It's been that way ever since it was movingly recited by actor John Hannah in the enormously successful 1994 English romantic comedy: 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'.
Funeral Blues. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum. Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead. Scribbling on the sky the message ‘He is Dead’.
“Funeral Blues” was written by the British poet W. H. Auden and first published in 1938. It's a poem about the immensity of grief: the speaker has lost someone important, but the rest of the world doesn’t slow down or stop to pay its respects—it just keeps plugging along on as if nothing has changed.
Stop All the Clocks by W.H. Auden (1907-1973) Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum. Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead.
Twelve Songs: IX. By W. H. Auden. April 1936. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum. Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.