W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” is recited in the 1994 British romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral. Matthew, played by John Hannah, reads it at his partner Gareth's funeral. 

A 1999 BBC poll ranked the poem as the fifth most popular "modern" poem in the United Kingdom.

Following the film's release, Auden's work gained greater recognition. Faber and Faber published a compilation of ten Auden poems called 'Tell Me the Truth About Love,' which includes 'Funeral Blues,' and it sold approximately 250,000 copies. 

Here is the full poem - 

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 in 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 forever, 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.