An Analysis Of Wystan Hugh Auden's Poem Musee Des Beaux Arts

Everyone goes through some sort of pain that can be caused by someone or something. Suffering is a heart wrenching pain. Everyone has suffered through things, and people get used to it. Wystan Hugh Auden’s poem, “Musee des Beaux Arts,” shows that suffering is a part of life and sometimes nothing can be done about it other than moving on. The poem is a hard truth that we don’t want to hear, but we can’t reject the truth because it’s the reality. In “Musee des Beaux Arts,” the voice of the poem is undramatized. The author doesn’t identify a particular person. However, the voice is coming from someone observing his surroundings. This person sees that the people are suffering, and everyone is ignoring their suffering. The title of the poem in English is translated to “Museum of Fine Arts,” and people usually observe things in a Museum. The poem states, “when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting.” The observer notices how the elders are suffering through their timely deaths. The voice reflects an attitude that conveys realistic suffering. This is used to show that one cannot solve everyone’s problems, and people have to grieve. The poem states, “For the miraculous birth, there always must be/Children who did not
Since the poem was publish during the late 1930, Auden must have wrote his poem near the end of the great depression. Auden observe a time of great famine and misery. Auden saw the whole world was affected by the great depression and many people were unable to feed themselves or their families. Some suffered more than others during the great depression. The wealthy that kept their money saw how the rest of the world was distraught. Over a span of nine years the whole world understood that in times people will suffer and there is nothing that one can do to help. The great depression mostly shaped the poem’s