A Comparison Of Musee Des Beaux Arts And Elegy

“Musee des Beaux Arts and Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” Many people don’t realize what is happening in the world. People choose to ignore what is really important, for example, human suffering and death. Others can’t seem to forget loved ones that have passed away and of course people don’t know what happens after death. Both poems “Musee des Beaux Arts” and “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” themes are about death. “Musee des Beaux Arts” was written in 1940. The poem indicates a tragic event many people go unaffected by it. While some will mourn over it to others life still goes on. In the event of bad things many people will turn their head and act as if it never happened. A person could be drowning right now but everyone still will continue with what they are doing.
The theme of “Musee des Beaux Arts” is apathy to human suffering and death. The poem mixes ordinary events and extraordinary ones, although extraordinary events seem to deflate to everyday lives. Life goes on while a "miraculous birth occurs", but also while "the disaster" of Icarus's death
The poem employs a style similar to that of contemporary odes, but it embodies a meditation on death, and remembrance after death. The poem is a rhyme scheme. In line forty-two “mansion” is implicitly compared to body and this is an example of metaphor, which consists that the soul resides in the body. Another example of a metaphor is “pregnant with celestial fire” it is an implicit comparison and hence constitutes. This poem’s message is a warning that darkness is within everyone. Yet this darkness has only as much power as a person allows it. Each person has the power to change humanity for the best or worse depending on his or her desires. The poem argues that the remembrance can be good and bad, and the narrator finds comfort in pondering the lives of the obscure rustics buried in the