The question is for 4 marks and we also need to indicate the speaker's emotions and state of mind in lines 1-4
The first stanza of W. H. Auden's "Funeral Blues" contains requests for silence couched in hyperbole. The speaker over exaggerates his wish for the noise of life, phones, dog bark, clocks...., to not drown out the funeral procession. In the second stanza, the speaker asks that "crepe bows" be put around "the white necks of the public doves" to enhance the funeral.
Consider also the speakers hyperbolic plea to:
Pack upthe moon and dismantlethe sun,
Pour awaythe ocean and sweep upthe wood;
This, of course, can never be done.
What are the hyperbolic expressions used by the speaker and the meanings of them
