Exploring W.H. Auden's poem 'Musée des Beaux Arts'
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I can write a creative paragraph inspired by W.H. Auden’s ekphrastic poem 'Musée des Beaux Arts'.
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W.H. Auden’s poem ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ is an ekphrastic poem.
An ekphrastic poem is a poem which describes a piece of art, and is inspired by it.
Each painting which inspired Auden’s ekphrastic poem depicts tragic events.
However, what inspired Auden were the people in the paintings who seem to have apathetic responses to the tragic events.
Auden focuses particularly on the apathy of the ploughman in Bruegel’s painting ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’.
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