stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone

I am choosing the poem "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" by W.H. Auden. The speaker in this poem is a female. It could be a male but I am interpreting it as a female. I think the speaker is a female because of line 6 where the speaker says "He Is Dead". Reading the poem I get the feeling that the speaker is the partner of a man who has died, someone she loved dearly. She seems to speaking to a higher power. It is as if she is crying out, to anyone who can hear her. It is not one specific person or thing she is crying to, it is everything, everyone who can hear. She mentions not wanting to hear things that she used to such as a dog barking or a piano playing. She wants for time to not exist, for phones to not work. She wishes the sun and the moon and all of the stars away. There is no more good that can come from any of them, she says. She is desperate, she is hurting. She hurts so bad that nothing else matters anymore. She wants for the world that she lived in with him to not exist anymore because nothing in it matters if he is not there with her. She is so sad. The poem doesn't say anything to orient us to a specific place or time in which the speaker is. I imagine it to be shortly after the news of her husbands death. I imagine the situation to be a wife who just wants to get the funeral over with, because nothing matters. The tone is that of solemnity.