The poem Musee Des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden is a poem about human suffering and is best seen in context when viewing the "Fall of Icarus" painting by Breughal.
The basic theme of the poem is a response to the tragedy of the death of Icarus represented in the painting by Breughal. The opening life "About Suffering, they were never wrong" already sets the overall message of the poem: that suffering is all around us. The poem gives a subjective view of suffering and states that it is merely another part of our lives. …
