Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden 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; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge …showed first 75 words of 590 total…

…showed last 75 words of 590 total…its innocent behind on a tree”, “Heard the splash, the forsaken cry” and “white legs disappearing into the delicate green water”. I related to this poem well because of its freedom of style and its use of visual imagery. I also like how, underneath the commonplace language was a serious theme or a deeper meaning. This poem is a far better example of what I have attempted to achieve in my own poetry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**