Funeral Blues Theme Analysis

He reworked on it in 1938 and in 1940, he published it in his collection. It was featured in a film and that is when it became popular as a mourning song (dirge). It has been transformed to what it is today, a lament for the dead. The earlier iterations were not that somber as the one is seen today. The poem is about a person mourning a dead person who was so close to him or a lover. This tells more about how special this dead person was to the poet. Maybe he was even a leader in the society for it seems the mourners are many. Also, the poet displays it to seem as a state funeral where many people would be saddened to hear the death of the person.