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Day: October 29, 2018

Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden

29 Oct 2018 Subhasis Chattopadhyay

This is one of Auden’s most beautiful but under-anthologized poems. The beauty of the poem is undercut by great sorrow since “our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought”.

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