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Offline Eire1978

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Interesting BBM - Four Weddings and a Funeral connection
« on: January 10, 2007, 08:14:34 pm »
I recently watched Four Weddings and a Funeral again on tv, and I think that the poem by W. H. Auden that Matthew reads during Gareth's funeral really fits Ennis's grief for the loss of his beloved Jack.

Who agrees?

Here's the poem btw:
 

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.