...have pointed to Auden's statement about the Old Masters' understanding of suffering, which so often takes place while "someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along," as something Hemingway also understood. But al* DIA, p. 167. 3 Carlos Baker notes that the repeated...

...the presence of the cat. The Old Masters, as Auden wrote long ago, were never wrong about suffering. "How well they understood its human position; how...eating or opening a window or just walking dully along. . . . They never forgot that even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course anyhow in some corner,...

...can be situated indifferently next to the local and the particular. To quote Auden's wonderful lines: About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters:...eating or opening a window or just walking dully along. 45 Though perhaps as we insist on that truth we will notice, in the Act for the better packing of Butter...

...which there is no explicit reference to a first person speaker is WH Auden's 'Musee des Beaux Arts': About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters:...eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; 5 How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must...

...side of the paradox. Use the chart above as a model. Share your chart with a partner. Apply: Consider: About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters:...eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; WH Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts" Discuss: I. Suffering is a general term. What is a general term that...

...Brussels, Auden reflected on the way "the Old Masters" understood how miracles and martyrdoms take place "While someone else is eating or opening a window...passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there must always be Children who did not specially want tt to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the...

...least one that could represent as much as Breughel's poet, the old master Auden, did of suffering and "its human position: how it takes place / While someone...eating or opening a window or just walking dully along" ("Musée des Beaux Arts"). All this is, however, cut out of the world when taken as interface. Disembodied...

...anyway, anyway In the bare field there old man, old potterer . . . Musee des Beaux Arts • WH Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters:...miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not especially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even...

...melted when Icarus flew close to the sun, and he fell into the sea. PASSAGE A2 Musée Des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters:...eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; 5 How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must...

...than the painting in making no mention of the observant shepherd. It begins with general reflections: About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters:...eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; After meditating on the indifference shown by old and young alike to 1 Metamorphoses, VII1, 203 sqq.;...