Question

When does Auden feel that suffering usually takes place?

A. When people least expect it so it comes as a complete surprise
B. When people are doing something wrong, such as bullying or criticizing someone
C. When people are happy and doing things they enjoy, such as singing or laughing
D. When people are doing ordinary things, such as eating or walking

Answer 1

Read "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 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 Brueghel'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.

Answer 2

@osprey can u pls help

Answer 3

@chycora how long have I got to look at this ?

Answer 4

wym

Answer 5

@osprey

Answer 6

@chycora posters usually have a homework or exam "pressure" when they post (such as "like yesterday"). Just wondering if that applies here.

Answer 7

i need to turn this in all today @osprey

Answer 8

Could be a choice between A and D.
A. When people least expect it so it comes as a complete surprise
D. When people are doing ordinary things, such as eating or walking
Don't the two overlap ?

WHA
"While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;"

B. When people are doing something wrong, such as bullying or criticizing someone
I would agree with B, but it's not what I agree with that counts here, it's what WHA is writing about.
"Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden.
"Museum of The Beautiful Arts". It sounds as though WHA was in a French/poss Parisian art gallery and got a tad upset, being maybe a sensitive soul.

Answer 9

@chycora guessing that there are other qs, that's some challenge for a WHA poem !

Answer 10

okay lol im a lil confused tho

Answer 11

@chycora why so are you confused ?

Answer 12

cause i think ik the answer but then again idk

Answer 13

well let's hope that you get "unconfused" :)

Answer 14

okay @osprey