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Saint Marys University Audens Musee Paper Be good at English literature, be familiar with Auden’s Musee. Be good at English literature, be familiar with Auden’s Musee. W.H.Auden
1907-1973
Group member: Yandan Huang, Mingyi Guo, Jianxun
Chen, Haorong Zhu, Zixuan Dou
Biography
Recognized as the most important
English poet after Eliot.
One of the leaders in the history of
English poetry.
One of the important writers of the
20th century.
Life
Auden was born in York, grew up in and
near Birmingham in a professional middle-class
family. He attended English independent schools
and studied English at Christ Church, Oxford.
At Oxford became the leader of the so-called
“Oxford poets”, a group of left-winged
intellectuals.
Life
Auden spent five years (1930–35) teaching in
British public schools, then travelled to Iceland
and China in order to write books about his
journeys.
In 1939, Auden fell in love with Chester
Kallman and regarded their relationship as a
marriage, but this ended in 1941.
In 1940 began teaching in New York, and
published ‘Another Time’.
Since then, his social poetry has been antiideology and anti-politics
Life
Developed a growing concern with poetics and
difficult verse forms.
Deeply committed to social and political issues.
In 1946 became a citizen of the USA.
In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at
Oxford.
In 1968 nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature
Died in 1973
Pieter Bruegel
• Pieter Bruegel was born in Berda,
Finland, around 1925. And died in
Brussels, Belgium in September
1569.
• At that time, he was a Netherlandish
Renaissance painter and
printmaker.
• Pieter Bruegel is famous for his
Genre Painting of landscapes and
peasant scenes.
• Pieter Bruegel is influenced by
Hieronymus, so his writing style is
also humorous, characteristic and
good at exaggeration.
• “Peasant Brueghel”
• In 1551, he was accepted as a
master of the painter’s guild. Soon
after, he went to Italy, then returned
to Antwerp and settled permanently
in Brussels after 10 years.
Works of Pieter Bruegel
• In the 44 years of his life, he made 97 works.
E.g. Children’s Games, The Wedding Dance,
The Hunters in the Snow…
• But most of the famous pieces have been lost,
and only 45 have been proved to be Pieter
Bruegel, there is 15 of them in the Vienna art
museum.
Children’s Games
1560
The Peasant wedding
1566-1569
The Hunters
in the Snow
1565
Accomplishment of Pieter Bruegel
• He was a pioneer of Genre Painting of
landscapes and peasant scenes, and his works
had an impact on Dutch Painting in the golden
age, then changing popular Painting themes at
that time.
• He also revived Middle Ages themes and set
scenes of agricultural labor in the background of
the landscape.
Musée des Beaux Arts
10
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
About suffering they were never wrong,
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and
the torturer’s horse
3 Its
human position; how it takes place
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree
While someone else is eating or opening
a window or just walking dully along;
In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
15
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
8 On
a pond at the edge of the wood:
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
20 Something
amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
They never forgot
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

1.
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just
walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s
horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
2.
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 must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
Landscape with The Fall of Icarus
1.Rhyme1: ABCADEDBFCFCE
2.Rhyme2: AACDDC
1.
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window
or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately
waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen,
skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its
course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the
torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
1.Juxtaposition :
Eating/Walking dull along
Birth/Death
2.Theme
Daily Business
2.
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 must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out
of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed
calmly on.
Landscape with The Fall of Icarus
Musée des Beaux Arts
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
3 Its
human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a
window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently,
passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must
be
Children who did not specially want it to
happen, skating
8 On
a pond at the edge of the wood:
Musée des Beaux Arts:French word,means
art museum.Auden wrote this poem in 1938
are living in Brussels. He usually goes to The
Belgian royal museum (Musée Royaux des
Beaux Arts DE Belgique) After he viewing the
painting, he wrote this poem
The Old Masters:The old masters on display
in the gallery
From line 3, ‘it takes place’, to here (line 8), it
relates to a painting by bruegel on display at
the gallery, ‘The Census at Bethlehem’
This picture is based on a story in
Luke 2:1-5.The Roman emperor
augustus ordered all the people to
be registered in their own
cities.Mary, pregnant with Jesus,
and her husband Joseph braved the
cold to return to Bethlehem. The
woman on the donkey in the middle
is Mary. Joseph is in front of her.A
group of people were eating in front
of the house on the left. On the far
right, a child is wearing skates to
skate. Except for Mary and Joseph,
everyone was busy with their own
daily routine.
The Census at Bethlehem
Musée des Beaux Arts
Lines 10 through the end of the first
They never forgot
paragraph are related to parts of another
That even the dreadful martyrdom
must run its course
10
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy
life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree
bruegel painting, ‘The Massacre of
the Innocents’
The subject matter of this painting
comes from the bible, Matthew 2:1618.When herod the great heard from
the three wise men of the east that a
new child was to be king of Judea, he
told them to search for the child.The
three wise men of the east, heeded the
angel’s warning, did not report to
herod after they had visited the
child.Herod was furious and ordered
that every child under the age of two
in Bethlehem and its environ be killed.
This painting depicts exactly this
bloody scene of slaughter.
The Massacre of the Innocents
Musee des Beaux Arts
They never forgot
That even the dreadful
martyrdom must run its course
10
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy
spot
Where the dogs go on with their
doggy life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a
tree
Lines 10 through the end of the first
paragraph are vaguely related to parts
of another bruegel painting, ‘The
Massacre of the innocent’
‘dogs go on with their doggy life’ There
are several dogs running or standing
‘the torturer’s horse’ On the right was
an armed man on horseback, his horse
next to a tree
‘innocent’ refers to the horse’s
ignorance of the brutality and suffering
surrounding him
Musee des Beaux Arts
In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
15
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 must have seen
20
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
Icarus myth
In Greek mythology, Icarus is the son of the master craftsman
Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Icarus and his father
attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father
constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus’ father warns him
first of complacency and then of hubris, asking that he fly
neither too low nor too high, so the sea’s dampness would not
clog his wings nor the sun’s heat melt them. Icarus ignored his
father’s instructions not to fly too close to the sun; when the
wax in his wings melted he tumbled out of the sky and fell into
the sea where he drowned, sparking the idiom “don’t fly too
close to the sun”.
Jacob Peter Gowy’s The Flight of Icarus(1635–1637)
In Breughel’s Icarus, for
instance: how everything turns
away
Quite leisurely from the
disaster; the ploughman may
15
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
Landscape with The Fall of Icarus
Water, and the expensive
delicate ship that must
have seen
Something amazing, a
boy falling out of the sky
20
Had somewhere to get to
and sailed calmly on.
Landscape with The Fall of Icarus
Reference
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden
• https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-Musee-des-Beaux-Arts-by-WHAuden
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRyOl6fcYKE
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n7OkqUeePI
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Innocents
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Census_at_Bethlehem
• https://www.pieter-bruegel-the-elder.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder#Selected_works
• https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder
• http://totallyhistory.com/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/
• http://art.ifeng.com/2017/0419/3304536.shtml
• http://www.sohu.com/a/302673412_256863
• https://www.theartstory.org/artist/bruegel-the-elder-pieter/
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Intro to Literature 1205
Quiz # 2 (15 points): Poetry
There are Powerpoints on Brightspace for all of these questions.
1. Analyse the use of metaphor, symbol, and any other poetic devices (rhyme,
alliteration, onomatopeia, etc) in ONE (1) of the following poems. Make sure you relate
what you say to the poem’s theme or themes, and make sure to quote the poem in your
answer. (7 points)
“Digging”
OR
“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”
OR
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
2. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” is intertextual because it refers to or alludes to
other works of literature or art. What are the main intertextual references in the
poem, and how do they help develop the overall theme? Quote from the
poem. (5 points)
3. Choose three (3) images from different stanzas in Pound’s “The River Merchant’s
Wife” and explain, first, what is going on in the poem’s narrative (the story) at that
point, and then explain what the images say about the wife’s inner or outer life. Quote
from the poem! (3 points)

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