Talk:Funeral Blues

message: The page was so poor before I rewrote it, added some critical analysis an generally made it look smarter. Cokehabit 01:02, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Updated

message: Isn't there a contradiction between the first paragraph ("first published in 1936") and the second ("may have first appeared in the verse play The Ascent of F-6 which Auden wrote with Christopher Isherwood in 1952")? At least this is the way I understand it. Or is it perhaps the title that appeared first 1952? This could be made clearer.  --Jnickelsen 15:39, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction?

message: should'nt it be mentioned that the poem was writen by a man, to a man? i imagine this must have made quite an uproar in 1936... anyways, great poem. i think it is my favorite. :)
I loved the poem and realized that it had he pronounces in it and ı looked it up who was the author then I found out the author was a man too. Thats interesting right? The writer lived in early 1900s so its normal that he wouldn't really be open about his sexuality but in my opinion its definitely about a gay relationship.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.237.29.198 (talk) 01:12, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  gay? 

message: It is interesting that the poem was originally written as a parody. I think that most modern readers, myself included, interpret it along the lines of the reading in "Four Weddings & a Funeral", that is of devastating loss. Kind of ironic.
Yes, especially because there isn't a good interpretation of the poem easily available on the web, I think it would be very helpful to introduce some interpretive guidelines, at least. The above comment is right on: It's parodic, full of double entendres, quite the opposite of what lots of superficial readers think. Quite in line with some of the works of Catullus, in a way.Fixifex (talk) 18:40, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interpretation 

message: Under Critical Analysis, it mentions pianos being silenced. Scrolling up to the poem itself, I see no pianos. Wtf mate? -- Chris 22:00, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Silence the pianos and with muffled drum" (line 3). Macspaunday 04:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pianos? 

message: Any reason why the text of the poem doesn't appear on the page? I would have thought this would be the best place for it... Lucy Cassidy (talk) 15:25, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Added ROxBo (talk) 10:19, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

text: Isn't a translation of a poem another poem?! Saying that a translation of a poem is almost the same as the real thing (as this comment suggests) is like implying that poems are collections of facts - which is very far from the truth.
--Prokofiev (talk) 19:15, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The Actual Words

message: Has someone he loved died or simply left, because he says He is Dead, but he also says I thought love would last forever, I was wrong. So which is it??? Or is it both.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by XX EOIN XX (talk • contribs) 16:01, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  LOST 

message: It has appeared in full version of "New York, I love you" film -- 4-stanzas variant translated into Russian by Joseph Brodsky (Zvyagintsev's short film). Unfortunately I'm too lazy to add it myself
--94.251.9.74 (talk) 10:07, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  One more appearance 

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Macspaunday (talk • contribs) 07:07, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation