Answer:
The real phrase is: But with each word that she was attracting more and more in herself, so he abandoned him and only the dead dream continued to struggle as the afternoon slipped away.
Explanation:
The tone used is resignation, recognition of what was happening at that crucial moment.
I feel that Auden's poem creations a more powerful and emotional response in the reader becuase, I feel, you can describe a subject better or deeper with words than with a painting. I think it takes a little bit of skill to completely understand what the author is feeling when viewing a piece of artwork. The initial understanding I got from the painting was that people are unaware of other's suffering because they are too involved in everyday life, but Auden's poem digs deep into the subject that people are unaware of other peoples suffering when it is indeed going on.
Heat stroke because the rest is easy to fix but a stroke is very dangerous