Musee des Beaux Arts

{ 四月 23, 2007 @ 3:19 下午 } · { Uncategorized }

After reading the “Musee des Beaux Arts”, I felt that W.H. Auden didn’t agree the behavior of Icarus, or maybe I should said that the Breughel thought it, too. Beacause W.H. Auden wrote this poem after he had seen the “Fall of Icarus”, maybe he just wanted to convey the mood of the moment that he saw the picture or maybe he had the same feeling as Breughel’s. According to the poem, he said “In Breughel’s Icarus, for the disaster; the ploughman may have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, but for him it was not 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,”. I thought that he wanted to tell us that humans should not be greedy of the things they could not have, such as Icarus wanted to fly to the sky. Because that would only make themselves be punished. We could see that the ploughman were not even care about the strang sound he heard. And though Icarus fell into the sea near the expensive delicate ship, it still had its own way to go and didn’t care about “the accident” that happened near by it. According the above symbols, I could say that in W.H. Auden’s mind disagreed with Icarus and so am I.