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honored in art, songs, poetry and by literature artists, with one apparently inspiring the other to explore the tale in one different approach or another. Three of the most appealing of these versions of the tale of Icarus can be found in the poems "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by W. C. Williams, and "Waiting for Icarus" by Muriel Rukeyser. Even though the three poems talk about Icarus 's fall, each covers it in a different way. "Musee des Beaux Arts" and "Landscape

indirect references to another work or to real or historical events or persons, traditionally as a way of connecting those elements as well as enriching the meaning of the current work through associations with the other. In his poem "Musee des Beaux Arts", W.H. Auden uses allusions as a way of drawing connections between his poem, Peter Brueghel's painting " The Fall of Icarus", the myth, and the humanity indifference toward one's suffering. Icarus, the subject of this poem, was a figure from

"Musee des Beaux Arts". This is a piece of ekphrasis poetry. This means that the poem consists of a detailed and graphic description of a visual work of art. In the case of Auden, He has based his poetic piece on "Fall of Icarus", by the 16th century artist, Brueghel the Elder. The artwork shows a normal coastal area, with farmers tending to the land, shepards looking after their flock, wooden ships sailing to and from

doesn't matter. Everyone feels pain and suffering at some points in their lives. Recently I read a poem titled,”Musee des Beaux Arts,” by W.H Auden. In this poem he ties in three messages about, how people tend to look away when bad things happen, suffering is surrounded by the hustle and bustle of life, and when bad things happen others never forget. In the poem, Musee des Beaux Arts” the first message is, when bad things happen, people tend to look the other way. For example, even in the most beautiful

World Apathy though poem Would you ignore someone if they needed help? Though lines (15-17) in “Musee des Beaux Arts” it can be interpreted that the farmer might have heard Icarus falling into the ocean; to him, this wasn’t an important failure. The sun still shone. W.H Auden creates the theme through the use of language and stylistic devices: imagery, allusion, and tone to create the theme of apathy. Firstly, Auden builds the theme of apathy through the use of allusion and imagery. This allusion

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often utilized to construct decisions as it is just as important a behaviour as empathy. It is this apathetic attitude towards human suffering which causes us to completely ignore those in desperate need. This paper argues that the poem “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden displays first hand how human apathy is a regrettable attitude toward human suffering as apathy is one of the main reasons for the countless hardships society is going through today. In the poem, the author utilizes words or phrases

Morris Hunt, the leading architect to the Beaux Art style; and Henry Hobson Richardson, the father of the Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. The

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

Auden is a poet from the XXth century. As such, he has suffered the wars that have stricken the period. The ekphrasis, which is a literary description of a work of art, is used by Auden in his poems “The Shield of Achilles” and “Musée des Beaux Arts”. As part of his great concerns were the political and psychological conflicts that existed then. In the aforementioned poems, Auden uses the ekphrasis to denounce people’s indifference to human misery. First of all, Auden uses the ekphrasis in “The Shield