MUSEE_DES_BEAUX_ARTS_ANALYSIS
Title: MUSEE_DES_BEAUX_ARTS_ANALYSIS
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 588 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
MUSEE_DES_BEAUX_ARTS_ANALYSIS
Musée des Beaux Arts
by W.H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge …showed first 75 words of 588 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 588 total…scratches its innocent behind on a tree”, “Heard the splash, the forsaken cry” and “white legs disappearing into the delicate green water”.
I related to this poem well because of its freedom of style and its use of visual imagery. I also like how, underneath the commonplace language was a serious theme or a deeper meaning. This poem is a far better example of what I have attempted to achieve in my own poetry.
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