Funeral+Blue

 The highest purpose of writing this piece of poetry I think was to show the emotions of losing your significant other. The author clearly wanted to show the effect that a death of a loved one can have on someone. // “He was my North, my South, my East and West”// in other words he was my **everything**, and when you lose everything you have nothing. The narrator makes it clear that the widow in the poem feels that she has absolutely nothing else to live for anymore. This widow is so devastated by her loss that her world is put to a halt. She is mourning to the greatest extent that she thinks that she can’t enjoy anything anymore because her husband isn’t here to enjoy it with her. W.H. Auden made her message very evident that mourning can take a lot of energy and can physically and emotionally drain you.