Funeral Blues and piano in a collection of settings of Auden poems under the title "Cabaret Songs". "Funeral Blues" is copyrighted by the Estate of W. H. Auden. According to The W. H. Auden Society, only Random House, Faber & Faber, and Curtis Brown Ltd. can give permission to reprint the text. It is the English contribution to the statue commemorating the Heysel Stadium disaster, where a retaining wall collapsed, resulting in 39 deaths on 29 May 1985, when Liverpool F.C. played Juventus FC in the European Cup final. The poem is read in its entirety in the 1994 British romantic comedy
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