...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:...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...

...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.;...

...all, it was only our life, our life and its forgetting. MI/SEE DES BEAUX ARTS (WH Auden, 1907-1973) 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...

...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...

...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."...

...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...

...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...

...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...