Extrinsic. Extrinsic means not part of the essential nature. But intrinsic means belonging to essential nature.
You could argue that Auden’s poem contains some of the Imagist elements W.C.W. pioneered, but the essence of their similarities is really in the approach of each to the role of individual experience.
Bruegel’s painting really captures the essence quite well—the fall of Icarus was a matter of myth and legend, but such noteworthy events as that are largely irrelevant to the lives of most. Life goes on and our duties do not wait for us to marvel at such intrusions.
You can see—below the ship—the legs of Icarus sticking out of the water, yet the ploughman still toils.
The frame story depicts the author’s daughter, Kathleen, asking whether her father had ever killed someone in war. The fact that the author struggles to answer this question, and even lies to his daughter, shows that this issue still weighs heavily on him. Thus, this frame story adds depth and weight to the central story about the battle in My Khe and the killing of a young Vietnamese soldier. The frame story illustrates that incidents from the war have resonated throughout the author’s life
"The Pit and the Pendulum" tells the story of a man who was tried and condemned by the sponge inquisition and although he is not fully convinced of what is reality and illusion, he feels that he has been condemned to death. He feels stunned by it and strongly confused and fearful for the sentence he received and for the unpredictability of what will happen ahead.
The convict describes his prison with a strong synesthesia, he reveals all the psychological and physical terror that has passed, which disturbed him deeply amid hallucinations, sounds, images that appeared around him, bruises and a strong mental confusion. The prison is a claustrophobic, dark and frightening space, built with the aim of torturing and going crazy.
During the torture section, the convict is tied under a pendulum that contains a very sharp blade. The pendulum swings from side to side very slowly and is above the prisoner's body, but he realizes that as time passes, the pendulum descends more and more, even cutting his chest slowly and agonizingly. However, the prisoner manages to free himself from the ropes, but realizes that the walls are heating up quickly leaving his breathing, already weak, increasingly weak. In addition, the walls are coming together making the prisoner have no choice but to jump into the well built right in the middle of his prison.
The well and pendulum shown in the story are strong references to the methods of torture used by Spanish inquisitors who wanted to kill their victims in a slow and agonizing manner.
