"Musée des Beaux Arts" By W. H. Auden

I really liked this poem, not because of the meaning, but because of the ekphrastic style of poetry. I myself find it easier to write about something or create a poem based on a picture or painting such as in this poem. The meaning of this poem is morbid and portrays a realistic scene of people not being aware of their surroundings even though there is something horrible going on right next to them. The painting used to write this poem on the other hand is very beautiful and it is very hard to recognize Icarus drowning in the bottom corner showing how insignificant he was. The poem "Musée des Beaux Arts Revisited" emphasizes even more on the fact of how small and insignificant something can be, but still mean so much and that how "old painters were no fools" and that they understood how the mind worked. Therefore, these old painters could get away with putting something so small and morbid in a painting and it barely be recognized by the viewer.