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Click to read "Musée des Beaux Arts," by W. H. Auden. Then answer the question.

How would Auden most likely rewrite the following line(s) of the poem if Brueghel's painting had depicted Icarus falling on to the land instead of in the sea?

the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,

A. The line would remain unchanged.
B. the expensive delicate ship could not have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
C. the faraway delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
D. the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something not quite amazing, a boy on the shore,

Click to read "Musée des Beaux Arts," by W. H. Auden. Then answer the question-example-1

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Answer: the answer should be C or D *i will be shocked if I'm wrong*

Explanation: A and B are incorrect because the passage clearly said that someone say something in the sky. so those two are incorrect

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