Musee Des Beaux Arts By W. H. Auden

Suffering is embedded in our daily lives. There are devastating things going on in our daily environments and yet, people seldom realize this as they occupy themselves with other tasks. W.H. Auden’s, Musée des Beaux Arts, is a statement on human perceptions and how we use them to observe, or block out human suffering. While we are doing ordinary things like eating, or opening a window, bad things can be happening to others and it is as easy as looking up, to see what is actually going on. Auden illustrates societies’ indifference to human suffering through the form of his poem and by alluding to artwork that compares human perceptions and juxtaposes ordinary images with images of suffering and tragedy.

As Edgar Degas once said, “ Art is not what you see, but what others make you see”. The St. Louis Art Museum is a place for artist to display their art and give spectators the option to see art from a new perspective. This was the case for me. As we walked up to the beautifully structured building that stood so tall and wide, my expectations were extremely high. At first glance I notice the bronze statue of King Louis IX of France riding high on his horse. From this statue alone, my expectations of the art museum grew stronger. I have never been to an art museum before, so I wasn’t sure of what to expect. My first expectation was to see huge detailed sculptures right as I walked through the door. That expectation didn’t come true.

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The theme is a tremendously essential part of any poem. The two poems, “Musée des Beaux Arts” and “Waiting for Icarus,” contain similar themes. In “Musée des Beaux Arts” and “Waiting for Icarus” there is a strong theme of abandonment and suffering found throughout both of the poems. In “Musée des Beaux Arts” it is Icarus, the subject of Breughel’s painting, who is being abandoned while drowning in the sea. Auden clearly portrays this when he writes, “In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster” (lns. 14-15). Auden uses these lines to describe how everyone is ignoring Icarus’ current predicament. Auden examines the disaster even further by stating, “and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen / Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, / Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on” (lns. 19-21). Here, Auden is telling his readers that even though Icarus is in pain because he is drowning; life was carrying on anyway, a clear indicator of Auden’s theme of abandonment and suffering. “Waiting for Icarus” also incorporates the theme of abandonment and suffering, although Rukeyser does not depict it as fatally as Auden does. Rukeyser expresses the theme of abandonment in her poem when she writes, “I have been waiting all day, or perhaps longer. / I would have liked to try those wings myself. / It would have been better than this” (lns. 20-22). Here, Rukeyser depicts the persona as someone who has been waiting a long time for her lover to show up and Rukeyser makes it pretty clear that he is not going to. Therefore, Rukeyser shows her readers that the persona has been tragically abandoned by her lover, which evidently causes the persona a great deal of anguish. Auden and Rukeyser both use the theme of abandonment and suffering in their poems in order to show their readers how painful it is to be discarded by the world.

Auden touches upon many topics in his poem “Musée des Beaux Arts.” The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century writes that, “the poem condemns people's habitual inattention to the miseries of others” (Mao). In other words, one of the primary focuses in “Musée des Beaux Arts” is that of apathy. Auden begins his poem by writing, “About suffering they were never wrong, / The old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position: how it takes place” (lns. 1-3). Here, Auden is setting up another one of the poem’s main topics, which is human suffering. Auden is writing about how the “old Masters” knew how to capture the image of human suffering within the confines of their canvases (ln. 2). Auden then writes, “While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; / How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting / For the miraculous birth” (lns. 4-6). In these lines Auden is telling his readers that ordinary life will always go on by stating that the old patiently await the arrival of newborn babies, which is a reference to the circle of life. He continues this idea in the next few lines when he writes, “there always must be / Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating / On a pond at the edge of the wood” (lns. 6-8). In lines 6, 7,

My building(Palace of fine arts) contributed to the Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair from many ways. First reason, how the Palace of fine art contributed to the fair was by “relieving them from monotony the exterior facades were adorned with mural paintings representing the history of art”(Says, 2017). This means this building was used to help people out. Second reason, how the Palace of fine art contributed to the fair was by “showcasing artworks”(McNamara, 2004). Palace of fine art shows off to Chicago to the rest of the world by “housing over 10,000 artistic works from around the world” (Wadsworth, 2014). This means that this building allows a safe place to put the exhibits. Finally, the Palace of fine arts is now called, “Museum of Science and Industry.

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