1 / 6

Musee Des Beaux Arts

Musee Des Beaux Arts. A lesson by Hamutal Suissa. Table of contents. Show Breughel’s painting Paintings of Old Masters Have students describe what they see Show picture of Auden Show poem Have students listen to Auden reading his poem Answering basic questions on poem.

chance
Download Presentation

Musee Des Beaux Arts

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Musee Des Beaux Arts A lesson by HamutalSuissa

  2. Table of contents • Show Breughel’s painting • Paintings of Old Masters • Have students describe what they see • Show picture of Auden • Show poem • Have students listen to Auden reading his poem • Answering basic questions on poem

  3. Musee des Beaux Arts – Peter Breughel

  4. Musee des Beaux Arts W. H. Auden

  5. Questions • Pre-Reading • In this poem Auden refers to the mythical character Icarus. Search the web and summarize the story of Icarus. • 1. What is the theme of Auden’s poem? • 2. Who are the Old Masters mentioned in the poem? • 3. Why do you think Auden chose Peter Brueghel’s “Fall of Icarus” to illustrate his theme? • 4. What is the function of the last stanza? • 5. Does anybody care about human suffering in the poem? • 6. How do other people in the poem react to Icarus’ death ?

More Related