Musee des Beaux Arts

The story is told through ...

1. The poem is split into 3 stanza's. 
2. The 2nd stanza potentially highlights the entire poem. We would rather ignore trouble to satisfy an itch. 
3. The poem is set in an art gallery and the narrator is looking at the paintings. .
4. The poem was written in the 1940's. In 1940 the war was happening and suffering was being inflicted and people ignored it. 
5. The poem is written in the subjective - the narrator is very emotionally connected and opinionated on the subject. 
6. The voice of the poem, I believe, is W.H.Auden
7. There is no sense of time in the poem 
8. Enjambment between stanza's and sentences.
9. The rhyming pattern is irregular. 
10. Colloquial language used in stanza2
11. Based on the paintings by Breughel, who is referenced in the poem. EKPHRASTIC!!!!!!!!!
12. Written like an essay or an observation.