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Beauty and Tragedy

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I.Background Knowledge

W.H.Auden is a talented British poet skilful at incorporating popular culture, current events, and vernacular speech.Musee des Beaux Arts, inspired by Breughel’s painting--Fall of Icarus and by the Legend of Icarus after his visit to Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique is his masterpiece.During his composition, Christianity and the theology of modern Protestant theologians are thought to be two eential elements.II.Comments

The whole poem is telling a tragedy.Auden first gives a general description of his theme, and then uses an example--the painting--Fall of Icarus to specifically illuminate his subject—the apathy with which human beings to view individual sufferings.Sharp contrasts between the martyrdom and leisure strengthen the tragic feeling brought by the poem.Both the painting and the poem display a picture of free and leisure life, although behind all these common things a tragedy has happened.Images chosen are

III.Summary

Auden’s diction and the description of images provide us with the feeling of tragic beauty, for which this piece of work deserves a masterpiece.