Four Weddings and a Funeral married, she confesses that she has loved Charles since they first met years earlier. Charles is appreciative and empathetic but does not requite her love. During the groom's toast, Gareth dies of a heart attack. At Gareth's funeral, his partner Matthew recites the poem "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, commemorating his relationship with Gareth. Charles and Tom discuss whether hoping to find your "one true love" is just a futile effort and ponder that, while their clique have always viewed themselves as proud to be single, Gareth and Matthew were a "married" couple all the while. The fourth wedding
Funeral Blues for the correct reading "wood"; this error does not occur in any other edition. In Auden's "Collected Poetry" (1945) "Funeral Blues" is poem XXX in the section "Songs and Other Musical Pieces". In his "Collected Shorter Poems 1927–1957" (1966), it is poem IX in the section "Twelve Songs" in Part II, "1933–1938"; the same numbering appears in his posthumous "Collected Poems" (1976, 1991, 2007). Britten wrote a setting of the poem for chorus and instrumental group as part of his incidental music for the first production of "The Ascent of F6" in 1937, and later arranged it for solo voice