About suffering they were never wrong / The Old Masters," and inspired by Breughel's Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, FTP, identify this poem by W. H. Auden named for a museum in Brussels.
According to Arthur Kinney, this poem's line about "the dreadful martyrdom" refers to The Massacre of the Innocents. This poem describes an "untidy spot" where "the torturer's horse / Scratches its innocent behind against a tree" and argues that for every "miraculous birth, there always must be / Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating / on a pond at the edge of a wood." Its last lines describe an "expensive delicate ship" that "had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on" despite seeing "a boy falling out of the sky." Beginning "About suffering they were never wrong / The Old Masters," and inspired by Breughel's Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, FTP, identify this poem by W. H. Auden named for a museum in Brussels.
According to Arthur Kinney, this poem's line about "the dreadful martyrdom" refers to The Massacre of the Innocents.
“{Musée des Beaux Arts}”