robtop
robtop
19.07.2019 • 
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About suffering they were never wrong, the old masters: how well they understood its human position; how it takes place while someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along . . 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 . . –"musée des beaux arts," w. h. auden how does the description of the ploughman, or farmer, in the last stanza relate to the idea of suffering conveyed in the first stanza? it illustrates that one person's tragedy is a tragedy for all. it illustrates that it is important to look out for others. it emphasizes how one person's tragedy might not affect someone else. it reflects the unity of people in times of need.

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