Analysis Of Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus By Wh Auden

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Circumstances can make a human choose between life or death. An example of circumstances making humans choose is in “Musee des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden. In this poem inspired by the painting “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”, Auden demonstrates how most people do not care for others because they are busy with their own circumstances. When Auden writes “For the miraculous birth, there always must be/ Children who did not specially want it to happen skating/ On a pound at the edge of the wood:” (Auden 6-8). Auden is trying to convey that when Jesus was born there were kids that did not care because they were to busy being kids. Their circumstance was being a kid because kids do not care about the holy savior when they have not committed a