The two main themes explored in In the Attic and Stop the clocks are :: English Literature

The two briny themes explored in In the Attic and Stop the clocks are cacoethes and lossThe two main themes explored in In the Attic and Stop the clocksare love and loss. some(prenominal) poets express their insight into the bashledgethat the homo will not furlough regardless of the loss of mankind. This,however, is where the similarity ends. Both writers are expressingtheir own in-person air of dealing with losing someone close to them.On Audens side, there is sour in his loss, and an almost gothic love affair of Brontes writing despite its new-fashioned edge. With Motionshowever, there is more of stoicism in the writing. He writes so thatwe k instantaneously there has been a great loss on his part, but this meter is notof the melodramatic substance, which Audens is. Motions poem is aquiet resignation to the circumstance that a loved one has been lost. It hasin its core, a nostalgic romanticism and sense of sadness. It has inits essence a nostalgic romanticism and regret likened to that ofThomas Hardys poetry. It is these two differences in writing stylethat I set to explore.Stop the Clocks is a poem that describes a persons loss and thedeepness in which they suffer from their absence. Everything thathappens around them feels as though it is ending, the clocks, and thetelephones should all be stopped as in the same way that a life hasstopped. Also as he says Silence the pianos and with muffled drum,Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come it is as if they want theworld to know what has happened to the poet, and that eachbody shouldfeel some pain like the pain Auden feels adept now. The same isrepresented in the lines Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead,Scribbling on the tack the message He is Dead, its the desire thateverybody should know that Auden is in mourning and that nothing isgoing to change how he feels, should someone sample to help him thenhe will simply send every message the same, I Mourn. The fourth verseis amplifying what a person meant to Auden. He was my North, mySouth, my East and West this shows how much of an impact a person hashad on Auden, so much of an impact that they became everything tothem. The poet makes it sound as though now that person is dead, thereis no more north, south, east or due west to them and that there couldnever be again. My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song this is as