W.H AUDEN (étude)

W.H. AUDEN

"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" 

 (voir le poeme)

Feelings = sadness, anger, rebelion, revolte

Rhythm = slow

About death; her husband is dead

Rhyme pattern (scheme) = AA, BB, CC ... = a couplet

L6 : “He is dead“

No name, nothing about sex

“He” à important person, onlyone, unique, some one very important to the speaker person who say “I”)

“He” refers to God, divinity

First 2 stanzas :

no “I”, “My” ...

just imperative : “Stop...”, “bring”, “prevent” à order à anger

Between L3&4 : Run-on-line --> accelarate the rhythme
L1 : Caesura [si'juara]

Stanza 3 :

“He” ...

“I” à we decover the speaker

Regular rhythm

"I was wrong" -> break the rhythm
Echo of line 6 : "He is dead"

Progression... "Stop all the clock ..." : it's private
-> cosmic : "stars", "moon" ...
exageration