http://thinkdemux.com/2008/05/11/its-big-city-waxing/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:45:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thinkdemux.com/2008/05/11/its-big-city-waxing/#comment-47 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:56:12 +0000 http://guybingley.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-47 You’ve picked up on what Auden did in Musee des Beaux Arts – “and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.” It’s an odd poem – it doesn’t feel very poetic somehow. Partly Auden’s style but also somehow apt: this extraordinary happening is almost a footnote and the language is bordering on banal. Brilliance and insight as footnotes and flashes in the mainly routine ordinariness of life. Ah! Too bleak?

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