Musee des Beaux Arts
This poem to me was talking about how people go about their everyday and do not care what is happening around them if it doesn't pertain to them not quite sure if i want to say selfish or self absorbed. The writer put it perfectly you can have an event as miraculous as birth or as tragic as the painting he saw on the day he wrote the poem of a boy falling to his death does anyone really care.
The part I focused on was when Icarus fell to his death I thought was it an accident or maybe suicide there was a sail boat in the water who had to see everything but just kept sailing by and a man ploughing who probably saw too but was too busy to stop and see. I feel as a society today we are like the ship sailing and the man ploughing we know something is wrong but instead of stopping to see if help is needed we go about our own busy and let the someone else worry about it.
Well done! I can clearly see you thought about the poem and responded not only to the material, but also how it affected you. Do you think you could further develop this train of thought into a thesis statement? Consider what was it about Icarus death that made you think about society at large.
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