By reading the title of the poem, it is from French. The title of the poem means "Museum of fine Arts". I think it actually refers to the text about the story of Icarus who didn't listen to his father's advices of flying low to avoid the heat of the sun. Somehow or rather, the picture shows the foolishness of a man for not listening to the advices.
There is a picture which painted by William Carlos William on 1936 based on W.H Auden's poem about the fall of Icarus. The poem has taught a lesson on human's foolishness and disobedience and the paintings is meant to be a reminder for human's foolishness. It shows no changes to the world when one thinks that he or she is majestic and powerful.And when the downfall of the person happens, people would not felt sorry or regret on losing such a person as the world still remain the same.
As for me, I think the paintings and the poem can be a very essential material in teaching literature and moral values in the English classroom and I would like to use it as a source of material in my teaching.
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You may like to see the poem Auden was describing. It's here http://h-i-l-l.net/PhonoBlog/BreugelIcarus.jpg
If you ever go to Brussels (Bruxelles) in Belgium you can see the painting with others that Auden mentions in the Breughel gallery.
http://www.fine-arts-museum.be/site/fr/default.asp
W.H. Auden visited Brussels more than once in the late 1930s.
Thanks for writing this.
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