Have you ever lost someone that you have loved? It must be a really hard thing to go through. From one day when the beloved person is right there to the next day when the person is gone. People handle death differently. Some people might be mad at the world and want to be left alone while some people do not want to be alone. There are a lot of poems and songs that express the feelings of losing someone that they have loved.. The song If I could by Calaisa is about losing someone, as are the poems, [Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone] by W.H. Auden and Long Distance II by Tony Harrison. Songs and poem have different ways to express it The song, If I could, expresses the lost of losing a beloved one differently from the poems [Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone] by W.H. Auden and Long Distance II by Tony Harrison.
The song If I Could, by Calaisa, is very powerful and Calaisa makes it easy for the listener to feel how she felt about her loss. It is a really beautiful song but it is also a really sad song. The theme of the song is about the loss of a loved one and the problem of letting that person go. The theme becomes clear when Calaisa sings, “In my heart you will live” (Calaisa 19). This quotation shows us that Calaisa has problem of letting go of the beloved person. Calaisa says that she will remember the person and make him/her come back to life in her mind. The tempo of the song makes the tone come clear. The tempo of the song is slow making the song feel sad and depressing. The sadness is also reflected in the lyrics when Calaisa sings, “I can’t face the world without you” (Calaisa 7-8). Calaisa gives up on life when her significant other passed away. She sounds so unhappy with the world and that Calaisa just wants to go back into her house and hide again.
The poem [Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone] by W.H. Auden deals with the same theme and tone as in the song, If I could, by Calaisa. The poem [Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone] by W.H. Auden has the same theme as the song does. Auden make it easy to understand his theme when he writes, “He was my North, my South, my East and West” (Auden 9). This is a clear example of how important his significant other was to Auden. Auden’s significant other was his world and there was nothing more in the world that Auden would like to do now that his significant other has been taken away from him. Auden, just like Calaisa, is expressing how important the significant other is for them. They have both lost the most important person in their world and all either one of them want to do is just to wait for them to be together again. Auden also expresses tones of depression after losing his loved one. Auden expresses his tone by writing, “For nothing now can ever come to any good” (Auden 16). He just as the song from Calaisa has been given up on the world. There is nothing more for them in the world. They are blaming the world for the death of their loved one. Both Auden and Calaisa are expressing their feelings in a sad way that really comes through to the reader about how sad they each are. They do not think that the world can offer them anything more.
Tony Harrison expresses the same tone and theme in his poem, Long Distance II, as Calaisa does in the song, If I Could. Harrison makes it clear from the beginning what the poem is about. It is written from a child’s perspective about the dad who is still living as if his wife was still alive. This poem is about the loss of a beloved mother. This poem is different from the song because the poem was written two years after the mother died whereas the song was written immediately after the loved one passed away. Harrison makes the theme clear when he writes, “and the disconnected number I still call” (Harrison 16). Harrison is showing how, through the poem, the child is trying to keep the mother alive in his memories. Harrison shows that the child is keeping the mother alive because the child tries to call her because he/she want to talk to her again. Harrison, just as Calaisa, is trying to keep their loved ones alive. Calaisa is doing this more in her heart and mind whereas in Harrison’s poem; the child does it by calling the mother’s number. They both have to come to term with the fact that their beloved ones are gone before they can start to heal. Harrison is also able to bring out the tone so strongly. His tone is clear when he wrote, “I believe life ends with death, and that is all” (Harrison 13). Harrison says that there is nothing more to live for. The child has lost his mother and there is nothing left in the world, which is just as Calaisa felt. None of them want to face the world again, especially without their beloved ones. Both Harrison and Calaisa make strong points about how hard it is to lose a beloved one and try to move on with life.
There are a lot of different way to express feelings and thoughts just like this song and these poems show. They all express the same theme; the sadness brought about by the lost of a loved one, but they express it differently. Auden and Calaisa both express it by showing how important each of their significant others were. Calaisa also expresses how she tries to keep her significant other alive, which is the same as what Harrison wrote in his poem. Both the poets and the lyricist clearly create a tone of depression. Auden wrote that there is nothing more in this world that ever can be good again which is just like Calaisa sings in her song. Both of them are mad at the world for taking their significant other away from them. Harrison, on the other hand, is expressing that the life has come to the end when the beloved in the poem passed. Not one of these writers wanted to face the world again.
Work Cited Page
Booth, Alison and Booth, Alison and Mays, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to Literature. 10th. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. ??? Print.
Calaisa, writ. If I Could. Artists.letssingit.com, 2009. Music. http://artists.letssingit.com/melodifestivalen-lyrics-calaisa-if-i-could-dmhwss4
Harrison, Tony. "Long Distance." poets.org n.pag. Web. 5 Dec 2011. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15513
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