Funeral Blues

There are a few Movies that are iconic to the point where almost everyone who loves Movies has will have seen them.  Four Weddings and A Funeral is one of these iconic Movies.  I think most people have seen it, and while on the whole it is light hearted and quite comedic there are a few moments of sadness and a few of tragedy - beyond Andie MacDowell's acting "talent".

The video I post below is that of Matthew played by John Hannah reading a poem by W.H. Auden called Funeral Blues, read for Gareth in memoriam, played by Simon Callow.  Callow and Hannah are two of my favourite actors.  There is not a lot I want to say about this video, it is quite solemn and self explanatory and I think the poem speaks for itself so I link the video and include the poem below:

Four Weddings and a Funeral - "Funeral Blues"

Funeral Blues :: W.H. Auden

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 forever: 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 woods

For nothing now can ever come to any good