Comparison of Two Pre Twentieth Century Poems: Four Years and Funeral Blues

... Comparison of Two Pre Twentieth Century Poems: Four Years and Funeral Blues I shall be looking at the poems Four Years, written by Pamela Gillilan, and Funeral Blues, written by W. H. Auden, and comparing how alike they are. They are both poems about death and the loss of a loved one, and I shall look at even though their subject is the same, how alike have the poets written them. The characters in the two poems are at different stages of mourning and so their emotions are different. As the person in Funeral Blues had just died, the character was angered and upset, whereas the person in Four Years had died four years ago and so the character is very calm. The woman created by Pamela Gillilan is very sad and slow at responding as if she's very weak. This is different to the character in W. H. Auden's poem, as

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