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The Starrry Night And Musee Des Beaux Arts By Anna Sexton

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In my compare and contrast essay, I am going to be comparing two poems. The two poems that I will be comparing are Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden and The Starry Night by Anna Sexton. I will be comparing and contrasting their different plots and the meaning behind each of the poems.
The first poem, Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden is about a fictional being falling from the sky and the people around not noticing it, but just going about their daily lives. The meaning behind it is that something really bad can happen, but no one would notice it because they are too busy to see what is happening or just to blind to notice it. The plot of the poem is that people cannot turn an eye to someone else who is suffering or dying because they are too caught up in their lives or their own drama to care about other people’s feelings, or what is going on with them. Foreshadowing is to show or indicate beforehand. This poem was indicating that the person falling into the ocean in the painting about the poem was a Greek mythical character and the fall was foreshadowing the ending of his faith or his life. Maybe he committed some kind of offense and he’s being punished for it, and his punishment was to fall from the sky. In Musee des Beaux, Auden states, “How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting, For the miraculous birth, there always must be” (Auden), meaning that they were consciously and unconsciously waiting for his doomed faith, which was falling from the sky and

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