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receive. How could so many passersby not help them? In the poem “Musée des Beaux Arts”, Auden argues that humans lack empathy for strangers. He uses examples of people acquiescing to others’ suffering to support his point. Auden complements those examples with a variety of literary methods to make allowing other to suffer seem natural, and be persuasive. Auden uses various persuasive elements throughout “Musée des Beaux Arts” to convince the reader that people do not empathize with strangers. His

To begin with Musee des Beaux Arts, in which follows that particular motif with the ekphrasis through the painting of Pieter Breughel. This poem focuses on the human hardship and discomfort but at the same time about the tolerance that might people have in certain moments. That is obvious by the reference to the “old Masters” “About suffering… understood” who are in a position to be able to conceive all about the human suffering (1-2). In addition to these, Auden highlights the fact that the discomfort

W.H Auden's poem Musée des Beaux Arts and Giorgio De Chirico's painting The Child's Brain share a number of corresponding themes. They both deal with forms of childlike blindness. Similarly, The Child's Brain presents a focal point of a character androgynous in appearance. As the title suggests, the man may have the mind of one much younger than he, or he is harboring childlike thoughts. Musée des Beaux Arts involves another issue. Humans are so caught up in their own affairs that significant

Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden starts his poem by honoring painters who painted about suffering and society’s arrogance to the nature of suffering. People focus only on their lives and children continue to play, all unconcerned with the suffering of others around them. Auden brings the painting of Icarus to show the indifference of humanity to individual suffering. The central point is to show that everyone is caught up in his or her own lives and enjoyment that they ignore the suffering of

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

The two poems “Waiting for Icarus” and “Musée des Beaux Arts” are narrative poems. “Musée des Beaux Arts” is a poem written by W. H. Auden and published in 1938. “Waiting for Icarus” is a poem written by Muriel Rukeyser and published in 1973. The poem “Musée des Beaux Arts” is about how no one truly cares when a tragedy is taking place, unless said tragedy concerns them directly. The poem “Waiting for Icarus” tells the story about a woman who is reminiscing being abandoned by her lover while waiting

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

The poem, "Musee Des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden is a twenty-one line poem broken into two stanzas. To the naked eye, this poem can appear super simple, but it is actually very complex. The first stanza is the longer of the two and focuses on the idea of suffering and where it can be found. He lists several instances of suffering and makes note that suffering will always be there, it is unavoidable, but the suffering is not always in the center of the frame, it is not always the main focus of the people

usually 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

Comparing Musée des Beaux Arts and Life Cycle of Common Man "Musée des Beaux Arts" and "Life Cycle of Common Man" share a common theme, though the imagery they use to express it is quite different.  Both poems have the theme of life goes on or life stops for no one.  The difference in imagery is the difference between the general and the specific.  I believe that the theme of both poems lies in the same vein, but they take different paths to its development.  Auden speaks more about society