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 Funeral (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) "With so much going on in the A- and B-plots, the C-plot about Boyle's attempt to go all the way with his ongoing funeral hookup definitely suffered from being cut for time." Alan Sepinwall of "HitFix" wrote, "Fortunately, there was a lot of funny stuff happening around the spectacle of the show's two most sensible characters drinking too much after a very bad day." Andy Crump of "Paste" gave the episode a 8.0 rating and wrote, "The one problem with 'The Funeral' emphasizing Boyle's sadsack melancholy is that Gina and Rosa wind up caught in his gravitational pull and find