Song For Heldi Anderson in Selected Poews od W.H. Auden

TPCASTT for Song for Heldi Anderson
In selected Poems of W.H. Auden

T: The title shows us that the author wrote this poem to dedicate it to a person named Heldi Anderson.
P: Stop what you are doing. Stop every motion that is happening in the world. There cannot be any more joy or excitement. Everybody should mourn for my dearest lover has died. Nothing is good when he is not here.
C:
-There are end rhymes within every two sentences with patterns of ‘aa, bb, cc, dd, ee…’
For example, in the first stanza, the first two line end with “one” sound, while next second lines end with “um” sound.
-Personification is used in first line, second stanza. The word “Aeroplanes” is connected with an action verb, “scribbling.”
-Connotation can be found in third stanza, where author says “He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my sond;.”
What author actually want to say is that “he” meant everything to the writer.
-The word “crepe bows” in the third sentence in second stanza and “black cotton gloves” in the next line symbolizes death or funeral.
A:
The author’s attitude in this poem is deeply mournful and sad. Throughout the poem, the writer expresses his/her tragic loss of loss of lover.
S:
There are two shifts in this poem. The first shift happens in between second stanza and third stanza. Until the second stanza, the author of the poem tells readers to stop what they are doing and mourn. Then, in third stanza, she explains how important and precious the dead person was for him/her. After this stanza, the shift again happens and tells how everything is meaningless after the death of that person.
T:
This poem was made to announce the heartbreaking news of Heldi Anderson’s death and cherish about that person, while grieving for the loss.
T:
The theme of the poem is that nothing is same when you lost someone you love.
This relates to life as everyone, at some point, encounters loss of someone meaningful for them, whether physically or emotionally.