Funeral Blues read the poem in memory of Denholm Reynholm, before he is interrupted by the return of Reynholm's son, Douglas. Funeral Blues "Funeral Blues" or "Stop all the clocks" is a poem by W. H. Auden. An early version was published in 1936, but the poem in its final, familiar form was first published in "The Year's Poetry" (London, 1938). The first, and less widely known, version of the poem, written and published in 1936, has five stanzas; the 1938 final version has four. Only the first two stanzas are the same in both versions. The 1936 version was a satiric
The Wanderer (poem) comrades, and received precious gifts from the lord. Yet fate ("ƿyrd") turned against him when he lost his lord, kinsmen and comrades in battle—they were defending their homeland against an attack—and he was driven into exile. Some readings of the poem see the wanderer as progressing through three phases; first as the "anhoga" (solitary man) who dwells on the deaths of other warriors and the funeral of his lord, then as the "modcearig" man (man troubled in mind) who meditates on past hardships and on the fact that mass killings have been innumerable in history, and finally as the "snottor