Download Musee De Beaux Arts Poem Summary Pics. Auden in december 1938 while he was staying in brussels, belgium, with christopher isherwood. Musée des beaux arts, which is french for museum of fine arts, is a poem about the universal indifference to human misfortune.
Auden begins the lyric by praising the painters of old, like brueghel, who understood the nature of suffering.
The basic premise of the poem is response to tragedy, or as the song goes obla di, obla da, life goes on. the title refers to the museum of fine arts in brussels. Musée des beaux arts is an example of a free verse poem because it lacks any set metrical pattern (meter). How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting for the. About suffering they were never wrong, the old masters: