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.
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The men feel defeated and upset. As they leave many of the men grieve because their friends, who they sailed with, had been killed. Additionally, many felt anger and fear. This is because as they left the land of the Cyclopes, Odysseus taunted the Cyclopes. The men feared that this was too bold and would lead to them incurring the wraith of the gods, which they did.
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I’d say it intensifies the speakers sense of urgency, because the modal verb must in this sense is used forcefully, as to imply there is little time and action must be taken due to this.
It is a complex sentence so b.
