Yes it does.
O.o Well this is for our exams, and we also have an anthology to refer to
Ah... I don't read poetry. I prefer novels and prose, although yes, Shakespeare is pretty good.
I can't remember what it was called or who wrote it but ...
Got it! W.H. Auden, Stop All The Clocks. I like W.H. Auden anyway
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 crêpe 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 for ever: 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 wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
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'You would perhaps oblige me with an outline of the events that bring you to my humble plinth? I am starved of conversation you understand, which is vexing, pinioned as I am here on this lonely outcrop as the life of the fair city swirls round and past me. There is no wit, no variation to divert me from the depressing spectacle of the gentle men of the law strutting in and out of that magnificent theatre of lies opposite.'
~Biography
