1. Art in the Modern World
That is not the case in Auden's "Musee Des Beaux Arts." ... (In fact, this attempt, to a certain extent, may offset Thomas's effect on the reader.) ... Auden writes, "In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, but for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone as it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water; and the expensive delicate ship that mush have seen something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, had somewhere to get to and sailed...
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