1. Art in the Modern World
... is an unforgiving trip inside one man's brutally oppressed world that leaves the audience wrapped in chaos. That is not the case in Auden's "Musee Des Beaux Arts." Auden's idea of art in the modern world is antithetical to that of Thomas and surfaces as an attempt to bring unity and coherence into an otherwise fragmented, suffering, modern world. (In fact, this ... 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 mush have seen somethi...
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