W.H.Auden- Musee des Beaux Arts

How is the story told?

•  This poem is about suffering and how it is always happening but others get on with their lives, and those suffering are unnoticed.
• One stanza in the middle, one line.
• Enjambement- could represent the isolation compared to the rest of the poem, whereby there are individuals and groups that are separate.
• Ekphrastic- using a painting as a poem, to tell the story of the picture through poem.
• Voice- is Auden as an art fan, and his interpretation of the paintings- Cencus at Bethlehem, Icarus etc- this is subjective as its his perspective and opinions- it is an observation.
• There is an irregular rhyming pattern- free verse structure.
• The setting is in an art gallery.
• There is no sense of time
• There are 3 stanzas.

These poems so far link  together about suffering, particularly Miss Gee.