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

Death Reflected in Audens Funeral Blues, Forches Memory of Elena, and Dickinsons Last Night that She lived Death is a raw(a) and inevitable part of life. Everyone will experience death, whether it is of a loved one or oneself. In W.H. Audens poem Funeral Blues (1003), he describes such(prenominal) a catastrophic event and the drastic effect that it has on his life. It is interesting how people choose to accept this permanent and expected event, death. Similarly, Emily Dickinson has written many poems about death, such as The last Night that She lived (843), which describes a family waiting for a woman or girl to die and the dreary and depressed mood that exists within the household. sadness is considered a perfectly healthy reaction when someone who is deeply loved and cared about 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 excessively flashes back to the actual moment that a w ife has watched her husband die. W.H Audens Funeral Blues, Carolyn Forches The Memory of Elena, and Emily Dickinsons The last Night that She lived are all poems which fate death as their subject matter, but differ in the fact that they discuss death in a unique style with a mutation of literary devices to make them more effective. Upon reading these poems, I could relate to each strongly on a personal level. Each poem expresses a antithetic view of death and the different stages of acceptance and grieving. When I was younger, my grandmother passed away. I was quite fond of my grandmother and she and I had a close relationship. When she passed away, I was devastated and went finished 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 own literary techniques, such a s rhyme scheme and hyperbole, symbolism and repetition, and dramatic pauses, they all have made the experience of death front 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. sore 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.