<span>Character Analysis Jem Finch. Jem ages from 10 to 13 over the course of To Kill a Mockingbird, a period of great change in any child's life. ... Jem represents the idea of bravery in the novel, and the way that his definition changes over the course of the story is important</span>
Answer:
The speaker and the captain are not happy; the captain is dead and the speaker sad because of this.
Yet, other people are happy about the end of the trip ("the people all exulting"). Those two images are being contrasted here- so the answer is:
The poet is trying to show that there are people celebrating, but they do not feel the pain of the speaker.
The answer to this question is in Auden's words "for instance". His poem is not specifically about Icarus and his tragedy. It transcends this particular story, elevating its message to the highest, universal level. The poem is about suffering as an integral constituent of life. People are often completely unaware of other people's suffering. The Icarus motif is just an example, albeit a very drastic one. It serves as the poem's climax. The "delicate ship" is on its course and it keeps sailing, although the crew must have seen "a boy falling out of the sky". In other words, the strange death of a young boy changes nothing in the course of other people's lives. That is why, unlike Williams' poem, this one doesn't even have Icarus in its title, but the Museum. It deals with the relations of life vs. death and art vs. reality, rather than Icarus' tragic story.
Answer:
George Herbert Mead states that the ability to take the role of the other is a process which underlies all human interaction. ... Through a consciousness of gestures, individuals constantly arouse in themselves responses which they evoke in others, such that they are taking the attitudes of others into their own conduct.
