Funeral Blues

[babynurse1202]

Totally amazing!

[remainer93]

I read this poem for the first time in 9th grade. 4 years later I still think this is the most touching poem in the world

[rigaflr]

i recited this poem at my brother in laws funeral..it was a wonderful tribute to him.

[490738]

OMG it makes me cry

[achsa95]

oh my goodness! i've read that poem before and i cried. and now i looked it up on youtube and the way it was said and the emotion.

i cried again! ughh i'm usually not like that!

[Anoukkop]

Best poem ever written.

[EverlastingTrueLove]

you've done an incredible job with this movie. Everything's just right: the music, the "lyrics'. You've created the perfect atmosphere around an amazing, and my favorite, poem. Thanks !

[0x0maddie0x0]

i love this part in the film

its so sad, but very well performed, i remember John Hannah and i think of this ...

and the boat scene in Sliding Doors--

love the accent to :) pretty much sounds better with one.

[gawreluck]

that puts tears to my eyes

[LaylaAbraham]

best poem eva

[graciesleg]

Thank you for this. A wonderful poem by a favorite poet - the reading was pitch perfect.

[ben01985]

well put together. beautiful. brouth a tear to my eye from memories that it brought back.

[PinkCat45]

I put this poem on my grandfather"s coffin, he was like father, and his death destroyed me.

Thank you for this wonferfull video.

[brodski1]

why pachelbels canon? may i ask?

[Ynesella]

BeautifuLLLLLLL

[chainjix]

Don't you just love John Hannah..

[emma473]

Lovely movie--great poem by Auden, yet why are many people labeling it with a name? This poem was part of a group of poems titled "Twelve Songs". This one is simply labeled IX (9)These poems were written around 1936. So why, is this great poem being named 'funeral blues'? or 'stop all the clocks'? This is one of my FAVORITE poems, but it does not have an actual name. I agree with gwennel...I would love for someone to read this poem at my funeral, while Mozart's Requieum played in the background

[chezzyr]

tell me more...

[emoerr17]

it's so touching..

[frenchfrog76]

wow what an opinion! any more?

[frenchfrog76]

thank you for posting a great piece of music along with such a moving peom. I ma sure that we all wish someone would read this for us with such emotion

[fruglescot]

To imagine, to dream that one would be remembered with such supreme passion and love.

To have touched the reverent soul of another,

such, to illicit these profound pronouncements. A life lost yet found in the memories of another.

Just one man's opinion

[allgonepetetong7160]

This is the only peice of poetry that brings a tear to my eye and the only words to describe a lifetime of love lost. Thankyou thankyou for posting it x

[dipatti]

A supreme, sublime, work of art all the way around! Oh my.

Along this vein, if anyone is interested in hearing a song done at a funeral in America's deep South, by a young man (grandson of the decedant) several years before he began studying voice, I can send it to you by email. Just send me your address if you'd like to hear it.

"Go Stand High On That Mountain" sung by Bryan LaRue, circa 2001. Oh my! It is not on YouTube yet. Instrumentals are somewhat "country" -- not so his voice.

[lagnaha]

Robert, This pretty well says what I feel. He was my North. South, East and West.

[lochness11]

When I placed it in my favourites,I was hoping you would see it,rather than me actually sending it to you.

I'm pleased you saw it with only a little help from me.

Auden/Hannah put into words, feelings that are difficult to place on paper or articulate.

[lochness11]

A truly emotional clip for many of us.

At school in Scotland, we were taught some pieces of W.H.Auden,but not this.

Not having seen the film, I didn't know that John Hannah read it.

As an actor,and as a person he "does us proud".

Almost unbearbly moving.I truly think it can't come better than this.

Wonderful words uttered quietly, with dignity and love.

All people with memories of loss,of whatever gender,can understand and relate with these eloquent words.

Robert.

Scotland.

[fruglescot]

For Alon

A great falcon took flight from his constant high perch. A light whistle breeze ruffled his feathered covering. Was a move so familar to the great bird as he circled round above the tips of arboreal growth. An ancient art of instinct so natural, so routine. An observance for his daily sustenance. Now into the steep dive in completion of the manouever the bird missed his mark and fell to earth. No more seen upon the perch or circling in the high skies we now recall those awesome sights.

[frenchfrog76]

fantastic - all I can say

[AprilMoon1963]

Voor mijn vriend Boy.. zo voelde het, zo voelt het, zo zal het voor altijd blijven voelen.

Wat doet gemis een enorme pijn. Dit gedicht is in de film zo verschrikkelijk mooi verwoordt.

[schnise]

wonderful!!! and i love the music. what´s the name of the song?

[schnise]

ah, i see, Pachelbel's Canon ;)

[xxboymeetsboy]

The bit where his voice cracks at 'I was wrong' absolutely kills me. ;_; So sad.

[bryrw06]

This was beautiful - a defining moment from this film

[elynsky]

Juguy forever!

[audiovideographical]

Lovely video - very moving.

[youmaus]

I have always loved this poem and the only reading of it that has turned me off to it a little was Auden's own reading of it.

[BAM1027]

brings a tear to my eye

[SecretSmile90]

Amazing. *cries now*