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W H Auden uses hyperbole to emphasise specific human emotions to further bring depth to his poetry and significance to his exaggerated style of writing. The hyperbolic portrayal of Auden's connection to his love as 'He was my north, my south…' emphasises the human emotion of sadness and pain of heartbreak as 'I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong.' Portrays the exaggerated pain and suffering heartbreak has brought him as his life deems worthless. Auden's use of hyperbole to emphasise his loss for love and meaning for life as 'My stars are not wanted now… pack up the moon and dismantle the sun', represents the human emotions depicted as exaggerated and hyperbolic.

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The poet uses hyperbole to illustrate the cacophonous feeling that comes from the death of a loved one. Auden depicts grief through their hyperbole, which they use to apply the imagery of a funeral to the objects they describe. The entire second stanza is an example of this, with grim imagery such as black and white formal clothing and the 'moaning' of the aeroplanes being an allusion to the saddened cries of the funeral goers, mentioned as the "mourners" in the first stanza.

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Auden uses hyperbole to depict specific human emotions such as grief and love. His use of personification, “Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead – Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead.”, establishes the extent of the grief he is experiencing and depicts the weight of the loss of the unnamed man. Auden uses a metaphor, “He was my North, my South… My working week and my Sunday rest”, to convey the abundance of love he held for this person. Through listing ‘North, South, East, West’, ‘working week and Sunday rest’ and ‘noon, midnight, talk, song’, Auden demonstrates how this love was his everything and depicts this as a specific human emotion. He then conveys the feeling of grief once more in the last stanza as, “for nothing now can ever come to any good.”

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The traditional Ballad form, creates a musical tone which further amplifies the human emotions of grief and sadness. The reference to death, high modality “He is dead”, display that the persona has lost someone. Furthermore, followed by the technique of a hyperbola to display the extent at which the persona is grieving “I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong”. Hence, the inclusive language further portrays the grief and sadness which comes with loosing someone. The emotive language “For nothing now can ever come to any good”, further connotes the challenges of loosing someone, and the use of the Author using a hyperbola depicts the specific human emotions grief and sadness.

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The poet’s use of hyperbole depicts specific human emotions, through the title ‘Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone it depicts that when times stops our usage of our telephones will stop too, because of today’s mass focus on technology due to the current generation being in the technological age. Furthermore, human emotions are also addressed through the abrupt nature of certain words within the poem such as ‘stop, cut and etc’ this idea of individualism and perhaps some aspect of selfishness is shown in the third stanza through the large use of the pronoun ‘my’.  Showing our indulgence in our everyday life relates to what was previously seen in stanza two with the large use of symbolism relating to ‘heaven and the sky’ through hellish and heavenly imagery in coherence with the use of black and white colours depicted. Though throughout the idea of this notion of depersonalisation is shown through the person who is addressed through the pronoun ‘he’ is never directly addressed them individually but that they have pasted as the notion of the poem ends on a bleak look on life.

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The poet uses hyperbole extensively in the text to depict the human emotions of grief and sadness. This can be seen in “The stars are not wanted now; put out every one.” The allusion to stars as a common symbol of hope and light, and the persona’s hyperbolic wish to ‘put out every one’ reflects the immense grief and sadness the persona is experiencing, and their unwillingness to reach for any kind of hope. Further, it is stated, “He was my North, my East, my South, and my West.” Wherein the persona reflects the direction their loved one once provided, and how lost they currently feel through the use of metaphors and hyperbole.

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The poet conveys specific human emotions via the hyperbole “I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong” the statement reveals emotions of grief after the loss of a loved one the description “love would last forever” highlights indulgent human emotions, love is a prominent emotion in understanding the human mind and is a collective experience, the poets depiction of this human emotion contrasted with “I was wrong” collectively reveals the human emotion of grief, the euphoric feeling of love has been shattered as a result of death revealed in “scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead.” Through a use of poetic devises the port successfully conveys specific human emotions, via the use of hyperbole.

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The writer uses Hyperbole throughout his story to create a sense of exaggeration.
The line "stop the clocks, cut of the telephones" uses hyperbole exaggerate a state of silence. He cannot physically stop the clock, but he can make it seem as if time isn't moving. When the author writes "pack up the moon and dismantle the sun", he uses hyperbole to explore an emotion of pain and sadness.

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The initial sentence at the start of the poem, using direct address accompanied by hyperbolic language, addresses the reader to “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone”, revealing the human emotion of stress and through a sense of urgency. The first sentence, followed by the repetition of the high modality statement, presents the hyperbolic representation of a need to metaphorically pause time, as well as the urgent requirement to freeze communication through cutting the telephone. The use of a hyperbole has accentuated the sense of urgency as well as the human emotion of stress through presenting a frozen moment in time, free of all communication, which metaphorically connotes an impossible, urgent task, effectively revealing the human emotion of stress.

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The hyperbole within the text exaggerates the whole passage. The exaggeration within the text highlights human emotions such as sadness and loss as the protagonist conveys the loss of a loved one. The repetition within the opening sentences portrays the idea and theme of silence which is demonstrated throughout the text and gives the audience an idea of how the text will continue whilst also emphasizing it.

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The poet uses a hyperbole to exaduratin and depict the human emotion of love and heartbreak. Throughout the poem the poet uses repetition of the pronouns ‘my,’ “He was my North, my South, my East and west.” As a result of this readers can understand how important this person was to the poet. Through love, this person was their everything which depicts how meaningful love can be to individuals. On the other hand, heartbreak is also conveyed as a human emotion through contrast, “I thought that love would last for even: I was wrong.” Consequently, readers can gather that although love may seem everlasting, it must always come to and end. Contrast enables one to depict that love is a rollercoaster with its ups and downs, but is a human emotion experienced by all.

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Throughout this poem W H Auden uses the technique of hyperbole to depict human emotion through the exaggeration of language techniques, "Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead"

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The hyperbolic portrayal of Auden's attachment with his lover in 'He was my North, my South, my East and West' magnifies the importance of Auden's lover to her. This allow readers to better comprehend Auden's human emotion of sadness. The use of hyperbole also explores Auden's human emotion of pain and heart broken in 'for nothing now can ever come to any good'. The exaggeration of Auden's disbelief in all events highlights her emotion of heart break.

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The poem depicts human emotion through the depiction of love. The poem alludes to the strong human emotions towards the protagonist towards so said individual. A hyperbole is used to describe that he was the world to them “Was my North, my South, my East, my West,” an exaggerated statement alluding they have no sense of direction without said person. The poem alludes that said lover has passed away and they protagonist “thought that love would last forever: I was wrong” a hyperbole conveys that the protagonist believes they’ll never find love again that this is the end to happiness, “that the stars aren’t wanted now: put out everyone” there is no point to light or life in the protagonists’ eyes without there partner.