Poem:
Painting:
In Brueghel'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.
-"Musée des Beaux Arts,"
W. H. Auden
Which ideas from the poem are best reflected in the
painting? Check all that apply.
The ship sailed on.
People may have heard Icarus's fall.
The farmer continued ploughing.
Those on the ship perhaps saw Icarus.
The sun still shone.