4 weddings poem? help!
Michelle A. Vandepas
wedding and a funeral? I LOVEd it! and would like to know what the poem
is and who wrote it.
thanks!
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Michelle
m...@cscns.com
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ASH
>Can anyone help me with the poem that was read at the funeral at 4
>wedding and a funeral? I LOVEd it! and would like to know what the poem
>is and who wrote it.
I don't know the name of the poem, but it was written by W.H. Auden.
Hope that helps...
Matt `Ash' Abrams
Suzanne Brabant Schrader
: Can anyone help me with the poem that was read at the funeral at 4
: is and who wrote it.
The poem is part one of "Two Songs for Hedli Anderson" by W.H. Auden.
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"There was always daylight between his dreams and his paycheck."
-Romeo Is Bleeding
Suzanne Brabant Schrader, Technical Writer (ssch...@netcom.com)
Chiung-I Hwang
>Can anyone help me with the poem that was read at the funeral at 4
>wedding and a funeral? I LOVEd it! and would like to know what the poem
>is and who wrote it.
>thanks!
The poem reading (from the movie) is recorded in the soundtrack.
Hwang
Dylan Bryan-Dolman
It's by W.H. Auden. Auden intended it to be set to music, and it
has been used as lyrics at least three times. It was first set by Benjamin
Britten, who often collaborated with Auden and who made this poem into a
showpiece for the cabaret singer Hedli Anderson. Ned Rorem wrote two
contrasting versions in his song cycle `Songs of Love and the Rain'.
Britten called his setting `Funeral Blues', and Rorem called both his
`Stop All the Clocks'. All three versions are available on cd.
I'd like to know if the poem had any autobiographical significance
for Auden.
Dylan
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