- Setting - art gallery, 1940
- Voice - Auden, no character, personal observations
- Ekphrastic - the poem is talking about another work of art, Icarus
- Omniscient narrator? - he is seeing all and writing about it, reflective
- 3 stanzas - enjambement - one stanza is a single line that stands out among others - 'Scratches its innocent behind on a tree' - done to show how people will ignore others in suffering to satisfy own needs, however trivial, or how one may stand out among others but still be overlooked by everyone else
- No sense of time - to show issue is ongoing?
- Lack of humanity
- Language is colloquial in some parts - 'doggy life', 'scratches its innocent behind on a tree' - to appeal to children? - fable? relation to Miss Gee and O What Is That Sound - many of Auden poems cautionary tales or like nursery rhymes in some way?
Wednesday 13 February 2013
Reading Journal - Musee des Beaux Arts
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A good use of narrative terms. You seem to have a good understanding of the poem.
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