W. H. Auden- “Musée des Beaux Arts”
The poem starts with the word “about”. What is the meaning of this word and how does it correspond to the structure of the poem, in which its proper subject - Breughel's “The Fall of Icarus” is not described until l. 14?
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The poem names several examples of indifferent witnesses to suffering. How are the examples from the first part of the poem different from those in the second half?
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Can the title of the poem be read as ironic?
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