ENG 1121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Religious Ecstasy, Intertextuality
21 Apr 2016
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This poem refers to another poem, known as musee des beaux arts by w. h. Auden: refers to the fall of icarus. Son of daedalus, who created wings made of wax and feathers after being imprisoned. Icarus was flying too high to the sun which resulted in the wax melting off of his wings, unbinding them, and him falling to his death. This is a story about being too arrogant, egotistic, trying to grasp power of the gods. When auden saw this painting and reflected on it, he writes this poem: poem surrounding the difference in perception what someone might find important, another might find irrelevant. No one is looking up at the airplanes, just as no one is looking up for icarus. Abacus of suffering ( how do you calculate suffering? ) This poem is about her by describing the scene, and alluding to almost direct quotations from various sources.
