While W. H. Auden is usually considered a master poet of political and intellectual conscience, in this poem he touches on the emotional suffering of a recently widowed woman. By using the literary device of imagery the poet paints a gloomy funeral scene personifying the intense emotions of a loved one as she attempts to deal with the loss of her soul mate. The first emotion that is pictured, in this funeral dirge, is that …showed first 75 words of 861 total…

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