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Musée des Beaux Arts and Auden's View of Suffering

Amor Sciendi

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W.H. Auden's poem Musée des Beaux Arts addressing suffering and uses some Bruegel paintings to explore the nature of poetry and art. In this video I start with the paintings and then do a line by line analysis of the poem's form and use of literary devices.

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14 Comments

@carolinaflorencio9743 4 years ago

Amazing video, I don’t understand much about art but you make it democratic because you talk about human experience and feelings and I think that’s art is about

@sayeemahmedshanto5083 3 years ago

Brilliant execution with engaging arguments and materials presentation.

@kahorere 4 years ago

Peter Bruegel the elder is one of my favourite painters, I'm glad to see you discuss his works. I'm always amazed how much can be squeezed into those paintings. They are full of attention-grabbing details but somehow I've never found them overwhelming, just endlessly engrossing.

What do you think about Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs? I think it's one of the most complex ones and without that single point of focus, even as hidden as Icarus or the Holy Family in the paintings you discussed

@rohanhassan 3 years ago (edited)

Insightful and engaging , a great video essay.

@pinkdiary09 1 year ago

How well you have explained each and everything❤Brilliant🎉❤❤❤

@youngschopenhauer773 1 year ago

thanks brother

@bowenisland100 3 years ago

Terrific essay: thank you. I recently discovered your channel and am catching up. Enjoying your warmth and clarity grounded in deep knowledge.

@cupofteawithpoetry 1 year ago

Thank you for this great explanation! 🙏

@IliyanBobev 4 years ago

Thank you.

@Commander-Vander 4 years ago

A good one.

@lilacswithtea 4 years ago

on the point of apathy, i think that healthy attachment IS healthy detachment, and i have to try to understand when and how to care AND when and how to give space. if i get one wrong i get them both wrong.

of course, christianity very unsubtly promotes a savior complex as a desirable mechanism of catharsis and i appreciate the thought and sincerity in the paintings and in the poem processing the inaccuracy of that.