The poem "Musée des beaux arts" by W.H. Auden was written as a response to Pieter Brueghel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus".
In this poem, Auden alludes to the human indiference towards other people's misfortune.
In the first section of the poem, Auden shows how humans go around not caring and paying little attention to the suffering in the world. According to Auden, neither children nor animals have enough sympathy to understand someone else's plight. But adults remain uninterested in individual calamity.
In the second section of the poem, Auden refers to Brueghel's paiting, by describing specific images of this dismissal of external suffering. How the ploughman "<em>may</em>" have heard the splash and how, for him, it was not an important failure.
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The Prisoners by Guy de Maupassant.
The Prussian soldiers were the detachment sent ahead of their army to scout the area they are planning to either conquer or attack. They were also tasked to search the area for people who were supporters of their enemy.
In the story, the Prussians were used to strike fear to the people. They were equated with wolves because encountering any of the two will surely bring about death.
