By W.H. Auden. Pgs 36-38.
Q:What is the Subject of the sentence?
A:The Old Masters.
Q:Where do you find the subject?
A:In the second line.
Q:Are the words of the sentence in the correct order?
A:No.
Q:What is Auden trying to say?
A:That everyone is too busy to care about Icarus drowning.
Q:What is his argument?
A:The old masters know how to convey suffering.
Q:How does he make his argument or convey the message?
A:He talks about how no one pays attention to Icarus's suffering.
Q:How does he provide evidence?
A:With the plow man and the ship that ignore him.
Q:What does the title mean?
A:It is the author's name Bruegal and Icarus the subject.
Q:Can you figure it out without having to look it up?
A:No.
Q:Who are the old masters?
A:Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bruegal, Carvaggio, Rembrandt.
Q:How can you fin out more?
A:look it up on the internet.
Q:How does Auden move through his argument and therefore the poem?
A:He starts out general and moves to specific.
Q:What is Bruegal's Icarus?
A:The painting.
Q:Do you agree with his thesis?
A:Yes, it is only because the old masters were great at what they did that the became the masters.
Q:How might Auden's historical or cultural context have affected his views about human suffering?
A:The time period or where he lived could have affected his outlook on the world.
Q:Why does he say the old masters were never wrong when they displayed their understanding of suffering in their paintings?
A:Because they were the ones who perfected this and they are the role models.
Q:What does this say about the esteem in which the old masters are held?
A:It says that they are very respected.
Q:Why might that be the case?
A:Because they were the best at what they did and the first.
Q:Since the painting is a visual medium, how does it convey a message that can be read?
A:Because you can interpret people's emotions, colors, and principles of art that convey meaning in the painting.
Q:How does the composition, color, lighting, ect. provide clues about what the painting wants you to see and how it wants you to see it?
A:The Plowman first draws your eye then you are led to the rocks and far away ships back to the close ship were you finally see Icarus drowning. The painting has lots of light except for where Icarus is drowning.
Q:How are the people in this painting responding to this tragedy?
A:They are ignoring Icarus and are all turned away.
Q:What do you think about it?
A:I thinks that it is a col painting with good detail.
Q:How do you feel about it?
A:It kind of bugs me because no one is noticing Icarus even they guy by the shore who is no more than five feet away.
Q:What beliefs, assumptions, or articles of faith of yours-and ours-are being confirmed or challenged?
A:It says that people don't notice or at least don't care about others that are in need of help from others.
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