Question

What do Icarus’s tragedy and people’s responses to it represent in Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts”?

Answer 1

 In each case, people go about their business or their play without comprehending, caring much about, or even knowing about another person’s experience of suffering or hope or disaster

Answer 2

The correct answer is C) how normal suffering is.

Icarus’s tragedy and people’s responses to it represented in Auden’s “Musee des Beaux-Arts" shows how normal suffering is.

Poet W.H. Auden wrote the poem “Musee des Beaux-Arts" (Museum of the Fine Arts) in December 1938. The poem appeared in 1939 in the magazine "Modernist," and one year later in the New York publication "Another Time" in 1940. The element from the poem “Musee des Beaux-Arts" that represents human suffering is the Drowning of Icarus.

The other options of the question were A) the importance of martyrdom, B) Danger at the sea, and D) the consequences of pride.