Death in Auden’s Funeral Blues, Forche’s Memory of Elena, and Dickinson

Death Reflected in Audens Funeral Blues, Forches repositing of Elena, and Dickinsons Last Night that She lived Death is a natural and fateful part of life. Everyone will generate death, whether it is of a loved one or oneself. In W.H. Audens poem Funeral Blues (1003), he describes such a catastrophic event and the drastic effect that it has on his life. It is interesting how hoi polloi choose to accept this permanent and expected event, death. Similarly, Emily Dickinson has written many poems more or less death, such as The digest Night that She lived (843), which describes a family waiting for a woman or girl to die and the dreary and depressed humour that exists within the household. Mourning is considered a perfectly healthy reaction when somebody who is deeply loved and c ard nearly passes on, and this is illustrated in The Memory of Elena (1070-71) by Carolyn Forche. She writes about the events following a funeral and also flashes back to the actual moment that a wife has watched her husband die. W.H Audens Funeral Blues, Carolyn Forches The Memory of Elena, and Emily Dickinsons The stopping point Night that She lived are all poems which share death as their written report matter, but differ in the fact that they discuss death in a unique style with a variety of literary devices to gravel them more effective. Upon reading these poems, I could relate to each strongly on a personal level. Each poem expresses a different panorama of death and the different stages of acceptance and grieving. When I was younger, my grandmother passed away. I was instead fond of my grandmother and she and I had a close relationship. When she passed away, I was devastated and went through a series of phases and emotions, much like those descr... ...otions are expressed in the poems Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden, The Memory of Elena by Carolyn Forche, and The last Night that She lived by Emily Dickenson. Although each poet writes with his or her ow n literary techniques, such as poesy scheme and hyperbole, symbolism and repetition, and dramatic pauses, they all have made the experience of death seem real and personal to the reader, and that is why their works are considered great works of modern, contemporary, and classical poetry.Works CitedAuden, W.H. Funeral Blues. Literature. 5th ed. Ed. Robert DiYanni. New York McGraw-Hill, 2002. 1003.Dickinson, Emily. The last Night that She lived. Literature. 5th ed. Ed. Robert DiYanni. New York McGraw-Hill, 2002. 843.Forche, Carolyn. The Memory of Elena. Literature. 5th ed. Ed. Robert DiYanni. New York McGraw-Hill, 2002. 1070-71.