Poetry of Auden

 
Fall of Icarus by Breughel
About suffering they were never wrong, 
The antiquated Masters; how well, they understood 
Its human position; how it takes place 
speckle someone else is eating or opening a windowpane or just walking dully along; 
How, when the age are reverently, passionately waiting 
For the miraculous birth, there unceasingly must be 
Children who did not specially compulsion it to happen, skate 
On a pond at the edge of the timber: 
They never forgot 
That even the dreadful martyrdom must fall out its course 
Anyhow in a corner, some ungroomed spot 
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturers clam 
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. 
In Breughels Icarus, for grammatical case: how everything turns away 
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may 
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, 
But for him it was not an important trouble; the sun shone 
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the unripened 
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must bring forth seen 
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, 
had somewhere to stay to and sailed calmly on.
Copyright © 1976 by Edward Mendelson, William Meredith and Monroe K. Spears, 
Executors of the Estate of W. H. Auden.

In threesome words I can sum up everything Ive learn in life: It goes on.



 
-Robert Frost

So now what do you want to do? Take me... 
to the homepage | to the Thing Called Life page | to the covering fire of this page 
about the metrical composition | about the painting | links

well-nigh THE POEM:
meaning:
The basic premise of the poem is solution to tragedy, or as the song goes Obla Di, Obla Da, Life Goes On. The title refers to the Museum of ticket Arts in Brussels. Auden visited the museum in 1938 and viewed the painting by Brueghel, which the poem is basically about. Generalizing at first, and then going into specifics the poem mind is the apathy with which humans view individual suffering.
Auden wrote that In so far as poetry, or any of the arts, can be said to...If you want to get a full essay, give it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



If you want to get a full essay, wisit our page: write my paper