Death

            “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden is a poem about someone who has lost a man very close to him/her. The relationship was never revealed (brother, husband, father, friend?) but clearly their affection for one another was fervent. At the end of the poem the narrator says the dead man was everything and now that he is gone there is nothing for him to live for. His life is now full of despair because he realized that love does not last forever. The poem makes me wonder what I would do if I lost someone close to me. Would I let it consume more whole life or would I grow stronger from the experience? I hope I would be able to grow stronger from the experience. If I lost one of my brothers, or parents, or best friends I would be distraught emotionally in the beginning. I would probably react similar to the narrator in this poem, but I cannot let the death ruin my life because it will not change anything, they will still be dead. More importantly the person who died would not want me to put a halt on my life because of them, they would want me to move on and live my life. Love is a powerful thing: an intense feeling of deep affection and it does last forever, contrary to what the narrator said. When a person dies they are physically gone, but it does not mean they are erased forever, they still live on in memories and they will never be forgotten. When the narrator says love does not last forever he is right in the physical sense of love, but you will allows love a person even if they are gone. When you lose a loved one you never stop loving them because they will always be with you: in memory.