Funeral Blues Summary

There is no answer up to this point yet to whom he is addressing, however since the poem is called “Funeral Blues” this can prove that the speaker is addressing the audience of mourners as a funeral. Hence this a public poem, meant for many people to listen to read as well. Lines three-four: ‘Silence the pianos and with muffled drum. Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.’ According to this quote stated, the author wants to silence the pianos and wants the muffled drums to be played because they have a gloomier sound and pianos are usually for joy and happiness in the author’s opinion and in his personal view, it is not the time for the piano to be played, but the muffled drum to be played. In the second line: ‘Bring out the coffin, let

He gave him direction and purpose and filled his time. Lines eleven-twelve: ‘My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song. I thought that love would last forever. I was wrong.’ This once again represents how the dead man was the speaker’s joy and who filled him with happiness and these two lines are similar to lines: nine-ten. Lines thirteen-fourteen: ‘The stars are not wanted now: put out everyone, pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.’ In these two lines, the speaker develops even more requests that are not quite possible. He is demanding that someone, whoever he is communicating with to put out the stars, pack up the moon and take apart the sun. At this point, his sorrow and grief is very intense to the extent that he is demanding and requesting for the stars to be put and the sun to be dismantled. These are definitely not possible to be done. The speaker’s hyperbolic commands are his expressions of severe and extreme grief. Even though no one is able to dismantle the sun, the speaker’s just wishes someone could do so. It is as if he wants everything to be vanished, depleted and just his mourning to be