How does W.H.Auden create a sense of loss in funeral blues?

... How does W.H.Auden create a sense of loss in funeral blues? Funeral blues is a poem about a man who has recently lost his lover. The man meant the world to him: He was my North, my South, my East and West. He was what mattered in the mans direction. Through a well-structured poem with effective language that stimulates images we can see how W. H. Auden creates a sense of loss. The poem has four stanzas and in the first two stanzas we see how the lover wishes for everyone and everything to stop and grieve with him Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. He wants time and communication to stop so he may grieve. He wishes that everything joyous should stop, even music: Silence the pianos. Even from the above quotation we can see that he wants communication to stop. He wants the piano t stop playing, a piano being

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