1. Illusions in Musee des Beaux Arts
The initial use of allusion in the poem is the phrase "The Old Masters" (Auden 2) a term used to refer broadly to European painters and artists prior to the nineteenth century. ... The second allusion is the "miraculous birth" (Auden 6) used to draw a parallelism in the poem with the Christian account of Christ's birth. ... Other Biblical allusions used are the "dreadful martyrdom" (Auden 10) that submit to the persecutions that Christians faced upon the demise of Christ. Auden's imagery of martyrdom is used to evidence the fact that major cases of hum...
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