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Musée des Beaux Arts

W.H. Auden

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1939
Pages
Pages 1

Looking at an old painting of a boy falling from the sky, a poet notices that suffering always happens off to the side, while someone else eats or opens a window or sails calmly on.

About suffering they were never wrong, the Old Masters.
Musée des Beaux Arts, W.H. Auden

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