To say that my favorite and unforgettable English poem is Auden's Funeral Blues. The English name is Funeral Blues, because this poem was written when the poet's lover died. The content of the poem is sincere and touching, and it describes the deep love between two people in love with the most simple and sincere language, which is heartbreaking to read. Let's take a look at the content of this poem.
Funeral melancholy
By W. H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the phone,
Stop the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Quiet the piano, with the deep drums
Take out the coffin and let the mourners come.
Turn off the clock, cut off the phone, block the barking dog's mouth with a bone with gravy, stop playing the piano, cover the drum and let everything be still. Then carry out my lover's coffin and let all undertaker come. )
Let the plane hover and moan overhead.
Scribbled the information that he was dead in the sky,
Tie a crepe bow around the pigeon's white neck,
Let the traffic police wear black cotton gloves.
Let the plane hover in the sky above us to mourn him, write a message "He is dead" in the sky, tie a black ribbon around the pigeon's neck, let the traffic police wear black cotton gloves, and let everyone mourn his departure. )
He is my east, west, north and south,
My work week and Sunday are off,
My noon, my midnight, my conversation, my song;
I thought love would last forever: I was wrong.
He is my north, my south, my east, my west, my working day, my rest day, my noon, my midnight, my words and songs, and he is everything to me. I thought this love would last forever, but I was wrong. This paragraph is my favorite and the most heartbreaking one to read. Linguistically, the phrase "He is my north, my south, my east and my west" is similar to the Yuefu poem "Fish plays lotus leaf east, fish plays lotus leaf west, fish plays lotus leaf south and fish plays lotus leaf north." It looks like it. Emotionally speaking, love is the poet's east, west, north and south, the source of his sense of direction and the meaning of his life. The last sentence of this section, "I think love will last forever: I was wrong." It reveals this cold reality: the person the poet once loved is gone, and the love that he once thought would last forever is gone and can't be found anymore. )
Don't want the stars now: put out every one;
Put away the moon and tear down the sun;
Dump the ocean and clean the forest.
Because nothing will end well now.
The last section uses some grand images to express the poet's anxiety and pain after losing his lover: the stars are no longer needed, so put them away, hide the moon and dismember the sun; Pour all the water out of the ocean and cut down all the trees, because now, with my lover gone, everything is meaningless. )
I believe everyone can see that Auden's lover is actually his same sex. True love has no gender, and this poem also shows us this. I believe that whether you are heterosexual or not, when you read this poem, you will be moved by the deep feelings in it. I hope you can find the other half who loves you when you read this. He/she will also be your "East, West, North and South", but the difference is that your love is eternal.
However, before that, learn more English poems so that you can tell them to your TA. I'm sure your skill of writing love letters and saying love words will definitely improve by then. I don't know how many levels. )
So, who is your north, your south, your east and west?