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| Musee des Beaux Arts |
| 作者Author / Wystan Hugh Auden 維斯敦•奧登 |
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Musee des Beaux Arts
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Pieter
Brueghel, The Fall of Icarus
Oil-tempera,
29 inches x 44 inches. Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels.
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| Poems
on the painting:
W. H.
Auden
"Musee des Beaux Arts"
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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 of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow, in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. |
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