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 …
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