W.H. Audens Musee des Beaux Arts and Pieter Bruegels The Fall of Icar

W.H. Audens Musee diethylstilbestrol Beaux arts and Pieter Bruegels The Fall of IcarusW.H. Auden and Pieter Bruegel were both acute observers of the ordinary. In Bruegels painting The Fall of Icarus, he is able to depend past the tragedy of the death of Icarus and focus on the simple word picture surrounding the event. Audens poem, Musee stilbesterol Beaux Arts, has the same qualities it glazes over the personality of tragedy, and chooses to instead examine the fact that life goes on bit misadventure occurs. Arthur F. Kinney highlights this idea of calm in the face of tragedy in a critical essay entitled Auden, Bruegel, and Musee des Beaux Arts. Kinney explores Audens warmth for the theme of the poem. The theme, Kinney explains, is not merely generated by The Fall of Icarus, but alike two other Bruegel pieces. The Numbering at Bethlehem portays Joseph and Mary arriving at Bethlehem, while The Massacre of the Innocents shows a torturer and his horse in a town square. twain pieces convey the same main theme as Musee des Beaux Arts the complex nature of a substantial event, contrasted with the simplicity of every day life. Each of the paintings reflects on human nature, in the context of apathy amidst tragedy. In his critical article Auden, Bruegel, and Musee des Beaux Arts Kinney asserts that the same statement is make by two art forms, and that Bruegels painting and the poem it inspired, Musee des Beaux Arts, juxtapose the unique and the commonplace. The Fall of Icarus, the only one of Bruegels paintings mentioned by name in Audens Musee des Beaux Arts, concludes the last(a) octet of the poem. The plowman in the foreground, not the splashing legs of Icarus, is what the canvas is pertain on. Bruegels focus on the sim... ...Works CitedBible, King James Version. Luke 1-5. 12 Dec. 2005 . Auden, W. H. Musee stilbestrol Beaux Arts The Longman Anthology. Ed. David Damrosch. New York Longman, 2003. 2789-2790.Daedalus in Greek Mythology. Mythograph y The Legend of Daedelus in Myth and Art. Loggia. 12 Dec. 2005 . Kinney, Arthur F. Auden, Bruegel, and Musee des Beaux Arts 7 529-531. EBSCOhost. Homer Babbidge Library, Storrs. 11 Dec. 2005. Keywords Auden + Musee Des Beaux Arts. Musee des Beaux Arts. 2003. Poetry Pages. 12 Dec. 2005 . Pieter, Bruegel. The Fall of Icarus. Musee des Beaux Arts. Pieter Bruegel Oil Paintings. 12 Dec. 2005 .Pieter, Bruegel. The Massacre of Innocents. Musee des Beaux Arts. Pieter Bruegel Oil Paintings. 12 Dec. 2005 .Pieter, Bruegel. The Numbering at Bethlehem. Musee des Beaux Arts. Pieter Bruegel Oil Paintings. 12 Dec. 2005 .