...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.;...

...masters in WH Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts," MacLeod is never wrong about suffering and understands "how it takes place/ While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;" or "how everything turns away /Quite leisurely from the disaster." But it is not the leisurely turning...

...Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, p. 45. 4 The Plot of Suffering AIDS and Evil David B. Morris About suffering, they were never wrong. The old masters, how well they understood Its human position . . . WH Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts" "Our continued existence as gay men upon the face of this earth...

...occurs casually, when "everything turns away/Quite leisurely from the disaster," how it happens when "someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along," how "dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse/Scratches its innocent behind on a tree."...

...that in which it is published and without a similar condition To Kip, amore mio, for his understanding 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/' 1940 Any work of fiction about history or a historical person...

...Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (1SS8). Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels. Credit: Scala/Art Resource, NY About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters:...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...

...the poem. But here, as so often in Auden's work, appearance belies reality. First to the poem itself: About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters:...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...

...victimization in his poem "Musee des Beaux Arts" when he wrote that the Old Masters understood that suffering takes place "While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along. . . ." In describing Brueghel's Icarus in the poem, Auden notes how everything turned away from the...

...Jarrell's vision of empathy among human beings is very different from Auden's, in which people suffer alone while "someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along" (Auden 6). The second stanza describes another "Old Master," Hugo van der Goes (d. 1482), and his triptych...

...Beaux Arts," WH Auden"' enriches our appreciation of this and a number of other Brueghel landscapes: About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters:...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...