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Macbeth: Lesson 5 Work
This work should be completed before continuing to work on the graphic organizer for lessons 2-5.
Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white 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.
What is the impact of the word ‘position’?
Look at the Phrase resource handout. Highlight the prepositional phrases in yellow, and the appositives/appositive phrases in pink.
List 2-3 words that best reflect the author’s attitude toward the subject, as well as the connotation of each word.
Words that Reflect Attitude of Author
Positive, Negative, or Neutral?
What is the impact of these words on the meaning of the poem?