We closely analyzed Auden's poem "Musee des Beaux Arts" by first studying the Brueghel painting referenced in the poem and then discussing the function of the allusion to the fall of Icarus. Joshua did well identifying the theme of hubris associated with Icarus and we then discussed how the poem's theme of egocentrism and the fall of Icarus relate. We next studied the poem's ambiguity which on its surface condemns how suffering is blithely ignored by those not impacted yet also suggests that perhaps this aspect of human nature is at times necessary. Last, we looked at the poem's structure, the hidden rhymes, again relating to the poem's image of suffering hiding in plain sight.