Funeral Blues 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 poem of mourning for a political leader, written for the verse play "The Ascent of F6", by Auden and
Funeral Blues film "Four Weddings and a Funeral". In the musical "February House", produced Off-Broadway in 2012, a large portion of the poem is sung by Auden himself. The show consists of an original score with music and lyrics by Gabriel Kahane. In the sixth episode of the 3rd season of British TV series "Gavin & Stacey", the poem was read by the character Mick, at the wedding of Nessa and Dave, as it was Dave's favorite poem. In the second episode ("Return of the Golden Child") of the second season of British TV series "The IT Crowd", Derek Pippen begins to