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"Musée des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden
In this poem, the speaker discusses the painting "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," observing that an individual's suffering often makes little impression on the everyday lives of others. The poem employs the rhetorical device ekphrasis, a verbal description of a work of art.
"Musee des Beaux Arts," Vocabulary from the poem
As you read W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 10's Collection 4: poems by Emily Dickinson, Coming to Our Senses, The Night Face Up, The Math Instinct, Musee des Beaux Arts