Essays on Musee Des Beaux Arts

In ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’, W.H Auden explores human responses towards tragedy across the cultures through the setting details of paintings within the ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’. Whilst the poem might be read as an ode to human resilience in the face of tragedy, the...

World Without Love The Poems My Last Duchess by Robert Browning and Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden describes how people dont care about each other and that world is cruel. In My Last Duchess the guy is talking the messenger from the duchess...

Both a short story by Katherine Mansfield and a poem by WH Auden present beautiful pieces of literature, filled with fine, captivating descriptions and high sensibility. They both make us look at some things, that we have already seen or observed before in a different...

Although suffering is not very severe in modern America, it is an eminent presence in most other places. W.H. Auden’s poem, “Musée des Beaux Arts,” acknowledges the suffering in the world and demonstrates what people do in order to avoid the suffering. The speaker makes...