Final answer:
Both "Musée des Beaux Arts" and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" depict scenes where life continues despite Icarus's fall, and they do not address the role of Daedalus, making option C, 'The role of Daedalus in Icarus's drowning is left out', the correct answer.
Step-by-step explanation:
The common element shared by W.H. Auden's poem "Musée des Beaux Arts" and William Carlos Williams's poem "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is that both works describe scenes where life goes on irrespective of the tragedy that occurs; in this case, the fall of Icarus. The poems allude to the painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, where Icarus's dramatic fall is juxtaposed against the backdrop of mundane activities, illustrating human indifference to the suffering of others.
Option C is the correct answer: The role of Daedalus in Icarus's drowning is left out. Both poems do not address Daedalus, who in mythology was Icarus's father and the creator of the wings that Icarus used to fly too close to the sun, ultimately leading to his downfall. Instead, they focus on the ordinariness of human life continuing despite individual disaster.