Musée des Beaux Arts (1940)

Oden's poetry is inspired by the poet's paintings in the gallery of the ancient masters museum (such as the great artists of the Renaissance, the scenes they drew, such as the life of Christ and the early Christian world). . What happened around "the birth of magic" and "terrible martyrdom" in the picture he is seeing?

Oden was particularly shocked by Brugell's "The Fall of Icarus". The picture catches such a moment, fly near the wing surrounded by wax, and Ikaros falls in the sea. We think that this disaster will be the focus of this picture, but it is obviously not so. What kind of life and death perspective do we convey when I see this picture through Oden's eyes?

Tone of this poem seems to be almost boring in some places. How is this related to the theme of poetry? (If you look for the depravity of Icarus, you can see this picture online.)

Many people know W. H. Oden's poem "The Funeral Blues" because it is reflected in the movie "Four Marriage" and "Funeral". This popularity makes it special, but in fact it is a feature of most of Auden's work that combines high levels of technical skills and tact, sympathy and elegance.

Poetry written after Eliot is ironic, but it is not cruel.

In 1939, Oden went to the United States and continued to have a major influence on the poets on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

December 1938, WH. Auden lived in Brussels with his friend Christopher Isherwood and wrote "Muséedes Beaux Arts." The museums and museums listed in "Muséedes Beaux Arts" are the Brussels Art Museum, Musées Royauxdes Beaux-Arts de Belgique which Oden has visited. In the museum, some of the paintings of the old Dutch painter - "Old Masters" - are displayed in the gallery in Belgium. Before proceeding with the analysis below, you can read "Muséedes Beaux Arts" here.

"Muséedes Beaux Arts" (French is "museum") is a poem that W. H. Auden collaborated with Christopher Isherwood in Brussels, Belgium in December 1938. It was first published in "Palace des Beaux-Arts" as "New Writing" (Modernist Magazine Edited by John Lehmann) in the Spring of 1939. It then appeared in another time collection (New York: Random House, 1940), in English four months later (London: Faber and Farber, 1940). The title of the poem comes from Belgium of the Islamic Art Museum in Brussels and is known for its early Dutch painting collection. Oden visited the museum and saw some of his second lines of "Old Masters" including the elderly Peter Bruegel.

"Muséedes Beaux Arts" was created in 1938, published in the newspaper under the name "Palais des beaux arts" in 1939, and was published in another period in 1940. This book was written when Oden spent in Brussels in Belgium. The title refers to the museum that poet visited during that era and the picture in the poem was hung during his visit. It is often considered a transient poetry because it occupies a simpler and more space between poet 's early esoteric complex poetry and conversation. Short poetry structure is relatively simple, it uses ekphrastic's explanation (verbal description of the image)