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Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden's 'Stop All the Clocks' in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral had a piece of funerary verse made such an impression on the nation. In the days ...
The poem on a gravestone in Mount Jerome, Dublin, Ireland The poem, on a plaque at the Albin Memorial Gardens, Culling Road, London SE16. Other versions of the poem appeared later, usually without attribution, such as the one below. [7] Differing words are shown in italics.
The introduction to a 2000 poetry anthology published by Miles Kelly Publishing credited the poem's reading in Four Weddings and a Funeral with showing how poetry could be "cool". [16] In 2013 "Funeral Blues" was described by the English scholar Abbie Garrington as "perhaps Auden's best‐known work". [17] The poem is often read as a memorial.
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
"Lyke" is an obsolete word meaning a corpse. It is related to other extant Germanic words such as the German Leiche , the Dutch lijk and the Norwegian lik , all meaning "corpse". It survives in modern English in the expression lychgate , the roofed gate at the entrance to a churchyard, where, in former times, a dead body was placed before ...
Priscilla Presley John Amis/AP/Shutterstock Forever in their hearts. During Lisa Marie Presley’s Sunday, January 22, memorial service, mother Priscilla Presley remembered her legacy with a sweet ...
The words are thought to have been constituted of stock poetic elements (the listing of the genealogy of the deceased, praise for the deceased, emphasis on the woeful condition of those left behind, etc.) set to vocal lament. [7] Words of lament were interspersed with non-lexical vocables, that is sounds that are without meaning. [2]
Los Osos High School dancer and America's Got Talent contestant Emily Gold, 17, has died. On Friday, Sept. 13, Gold was found dead by suicide at 11:52 pm, the San Bernardino Coroner's Office ...