How are w. h. auden's "musée des beaux arts" and william carlos williams's "landscape with the fall of icarus" similar? a. both poems focus on how icarus's death is ignored. b. both poems describe icarus's feelings of fear. c. both poems mention several attempts to rescue icarus. d. both poems discuss the large city in the distance.

A. Both poems focus on how Icarus's death is ignored.

Explanation:

Wystan Hugh Auden wrote his poem "Musée des Beaux Arts" detailing about the fall of Icarus from the sun. He gave a description of how people are indifferent about the suffering of others. The poem shows how Icarus' drowning was taken by the people who had witnessed it.

Likewise, William Carlos Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is also similar to Auden's poetry as he also dealt with the fall of Icarus. he also gave a description about the moment Icarus fell from the sky and how the "splash (was) quite unnoticed".

Both poems draw their basis from the painting "The Fall of Icarus" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. And their similarity lie in the fact that both poems focus on how Icarus's death was ignored.

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)