Poem Analysis
Question 1
The poem Musée des Beaux Arts (1940) by W.H. Auden is about the contrasting issues in people’s experience in daily life. While others are suffering or distressed, others are celebrating or going about their usual life activities. The poem has a set of characters or groups of people who are suffering and a different set comprised on people in a completely different life situation. It says that “when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting for the miraculous birth, there always must be children who did not specially want it to happen”. This line contrasts the situation of the elderly with that of the young, where the children do not seem to understand or care about the challenges faced by the elderly. The poem provides …show more content…
In this play, a group of 12 jurors is involved in an argument about the verdict of a case where a young man is accused of murder, and the penalty is death. The jurors need a unanimous decision to resolve the case and they can only issue a guilty or no guilty verdict. In the first part, the 8th juror votes no guilty and starts an argument to convince the other jurors to reconsider their position. In the second part, one juror after the other changes position after careful consideration of some issues in the evidence provided. The play demonstrates indifference by the jurors about the impact of their decision. In the first vote, 11 jurors make a guilty verdict by relying on faulty evidence, because they are reluctant to consider the interests of the young man. This is despite the fact that the young man faces a death penalty. In contrast, the dissenting juror is sympathetic to the young man because of the information about his past suffering. The feelings compel him to contrast the other jurors and provoke a discussion that lead to more questions about the original positions. In the second vote, the 9th juror abandons earlier position because he is sympathetic with the 8th juror. The paly shows that the characters change their position on the case after developing some kind of feeling towards the defendant. This includes eliminating the existing prejudices about the conduct of the man, and popular beliefs about
Question 1
The poem Musée des Beaux Arts (1940) by W.H. Auden is about the contrasting issues in people’s experience in daily life. While others are suffering or distressed, others are celebrating or going about their usual life activities. The poem has a set of characters or groups of people who are suffering and a different set comprised on people in a completely different life situation. It says that “when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting for the miraculous birth, there always must be children who did not specially want it to happen”. This line contrasts the situation of the elderly with that of the young, where the children do not seem to understand or care about the challenges faced by the elderly. The poem provides …show more content…
In this play, a group of 12 jurors is involved in an argument about the verdict of a case where a young man is accused of murder, and the penalty is death. The jurors need a unanimous decision to resolve the case and they can only issue a guilty or no guilty verdict. In the first part, the 8th juror votes no guilty and starts an argument to convince the other jurors to reconsider their position. In the second part, one juror after the other changes position after careful consideration of some issues in the evidence provided. The play demonstrates indifference by the jurors about the impact of their decision. In the first vote, 11 jurors make a guilty verdict by relying on faulty evidence, because they are reluctant to consider the interests of the young man. This is despite the fact that the young man faces a death penalty. In contrast, the dissenting juror is sympathetic to the young man because of the information about his past suffering. The feelings compel him to contrast the other jurors and provoke a discussion that lead to more questions about the original positions. In the second vote, the 9th juror abandons earlier position because he is sympathetic with the 8th juror. The paly shows that the characters change their position on the case after developing some kind of feeling towards the defendant. This includes eliminating the existing prejudices about the conduct of the man, and popular beliefs about