Poem Comparison: "Remember" and "Stop All the Clocks"

... Poem Comparison: "Remember" and "Stop All the Clocks" The poems 'Stop all the Clocks' by W.H. Auden and 'Remember' by Christina Rossetti examine the subjects of death and mourning. However they approach them in a totally different way. Whilst they are both written in the first person, Rossetti writes from the point of view of the person who is dying and Auden from that of the friend or lover left to mourn. Rossetti writes in the period before the death. "Remember me when I am gone away" In an attempt to comfort the lover who will be left behind. She wants to help him to move on after the death. "Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad" 'Stop all the clocks' is written soon after the death "Silence the piano and with the muffled drum Bring out the coffin let the mourners come" Auden shows the raw emotion

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