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2. A teenage girl with a bad temper discovers that her best friend has a terminal illness
This is the most believable statement of the two. Hope this helps! Have a good day!
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If this was a narrative I would probably continue with listing what the charter/I was/am planning to do at the beach or what I had left to do or maybe even what the character is wearing.
Example:
"Finally, it was Saturday. Everything we had been planning for our trip to the beach was ready"
<em>CONTINUED... (these are sentence starter examples)</em>
"I made sure to pack all the important snacks we liked like...."
"According to the news, it was supposed to be super hot the whole day so I made sure to put on some flowy comfortable clothes so I wouldn't be super hot and sweaty..."
"I couldn't wait to...(<em>SAY WHAT YOUR PLANNING ON DOING AT THE BEACH)"</em>
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.
