Short summary:
“Musee
des Beaux Arts” (Museum of fine arts) makes a statement about human suffering
and then goes on to support it with the example of a painting. It is a relaxed,
reflective piece where the poet’s attention is more on the picture than on the
audience.
Summary
The
basic norm of the poem is response to tragedy. Our ancestors are never wrong on
the matter of sufferings, because they are experienced people. They have
understood the nature of human suffering correctly. They knew that the human
beings are indifferent to the suffering of individual. Our ancestors or elders
have sense to understand the sufferings of human in everywhere even in simple
matter like eating, playing, walking or even opening the windows as well. The
elderly people are waiting for the death passionately but the children never
thought about such truth.
We are sometimes ignorant and blind to others' pain,
like the horse. People follow the natural ways of their life and are not
interested in other's problems. Even the inhuman bloodshed is not the subject
of interest. Poor spent their life like dirty, dark and dangerously somewhere
but we are indifferent for them completely. We have lost sympathy and
understanding due to habit. We express the same look upon everything, like the
sun that shines equally upon pain or pleasure; this is the reality as well. Our
grumbling will not correct human nature. And at least some amount of this
indifference will be necessary for us to bear the sufferings. Without any
indifference at all, life would be unbearable. This is an irony, but this is
also the reality of life. Whether we cry and panic or not, tragedies will
happen and life will still have to go on.
The picture of Brueghel shows Icarus falling from the sky
into the sea, farmers hearing the great splash, turning to see what the matter
was, and then turning once again to their work entirely at ease and
undisturbed. The great disaster is also observed by the crew of a ship. They
are much amazed to see a boy falling from the sky, and then only two white legs
rising out of the sea. This amazement is their only response to the disaster.
No effort is made to rescue the fallen boy. The ship sails on unconcerned. The
paintings fully bring out the indifference of humanity to individual suffering.
Disasters, tragedies and sufferings are a part of life; they happen any time.
But life has to go on. The poem also indirectly shows human
beings' indifference towards their fellow beings.
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