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.
By Marco Chaves
ResponderEliminarThe main subject in this Auden’s poem is that life moves on. The author presents that affliction is always a matter that affects the one who has the pain, while society keep a distance and an indifference to that pain or suffering.
There is an important reference in the poem: the Brueghel’s Icarus. The presence of that paint shows the idea that respect is moving back in society. As long as we were fine, we don’t care about others.
As we can see everyday, the anguish of others is not an important sentiment to us. In fact, it is a universal subject that people everywhere don’t care about the pain others go through.
We ourselves are part of that people. What do we do for people in poverty, sickness, or going through a disaster? Isn’t that we just keep in our lives as if nothing has happened?
I like this poem, because despite Costa Ricans are proud of being solidarity people, we can see everyday that this is an awful true. I have been asking many times from several people that if you are not suffering, why should you?