Comparing The Poem 'Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus'

After reading “Musee des Beaux Arts” poem and viewing the “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” painting, it is evident that there’s a common theme demonstrated and developed between these two sources, which is that suffering and death can be overlooked and affect people in various ways. The author creates and develops this common theme by creating a tone in each selection and by placing common ideas and topics in both pieces that aid in creating the common theme. Some of the common ideas and topics presented in each selection are that the act of suffering and death is not the main topic, and that in both selections, beautiful things are taking place to distract the viewer/reader from the tragedy occurring. To begin, after reading the poem “Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden, it is evident that the author developed and demonstrated the theme that suffering and Death can be overlooked and affect people in various ways. In the poem, the author starts off establishing that suffering has to occur, that the elderly understood this the best, and that it can happen anywhere and at any time. Then, in the poem, it states, “While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along… They never forgot...That even the …show more content…
Some of the common ideas and topics presented in both selection are that the act of suffering and death is not the main topic but the reader/viewer is eventually forced to take notice in it. Also, that in both selections, beautiful things and everyday life activities are occurring to distract the viewer/reader from the tragedy taking place. Overall, both of these selections have the common theme that suffering and Death can be overlooked and affect people in various