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

W.H. Audens Musee des Beaux humanities and Pieter Bruegels The Fall of IcarusW.H. Auden and Pieter Bruegel were both keen observers of the ordinary. In Bruegels pic The Fall of Icarus, he is able to look past the calamity of the death of Icarus and focus on the simple scene surrounding the event. Audens poem, Musee des Beaux Arts, has the same qualities it glazes over the nature of tragedy, and chooses to instead examine the fact that life goes on while disaster 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 inspiration for the theme of the poem. The theme, Kinney explains, is not merely generated by The Fall of Icarus, only also deuce 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. both(prenominal) 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. to each one 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 made 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 final octet of the poem. The plowman in the foreground, not the splashing legs of Icarus, is what the canvas is centered on. Bruegels focus on the sim... ... full treatment CitedBible, King James Version. Luke 1-5. 12 Dec. 2005 . Auden, W. H. Musee Des Beaux Arts The Longman Anthology. Ed. David Damrosch. New York Longman, 2003. 2789-2790.Daedalus in Greek Mythology. Mythography The Legend of Daedel us 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 .