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The Musee De Beaux Arts
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The poem is about the death of hope. Auden is distraught over the deaths in WWII. The soldiers of WWII were teenagers. To have 55 million children dead is an act of pure genocide. To Auden the fact that people let this happen means that the world is an ugly place. Art is a thing of beauty and human ....
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....he true nature of suffering is shown. The necessity for recognition is Auden's comment on the reaction of people toward suffering in general. Certainly, the person who is being tortured realizes what suffering is, and certainly Icarus, his wings melted by the sun, knows suffering when he plunges toward the ocean. But what about the rest of humanity who are opening windows or "just walking dully along"? Even if they see forms of suffering, do they recognize it as such and feel anything? If you do.... |
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