stop the clocks

Even though i was assigned this poem by W.H. Auden in class, I enjoyed reading it and picking it apart. My favorite part of his piece is that I had no idea he was a man before I did research on him. That totally turned my viewpoint of the poem around, because when I pictured the scene in my head I imagined a woman talking about how nothing has meaning since her man left. I didn't expect the author to be a man because it was published in the early 1900's, and I assumed homosexuality wasn't widely accepted, but it turns out there was an entire community of homosexual writers at the time, which I thought was really awesome because I'm a huge supporter of gay rights.