W. H. Auden: Poems
people
In "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden, what is the response of the people who see Icarus fall into the sea?
In "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden, what is the response of the people who see Icarus fall into the sea?
People did not seem to care much,
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure;