Which sentence best describes auden's response to the painting? click here to view auden’s poem and bruegel’s painting.

it inspires him to reflect upon human suffering
it reminds him of what we can learn from mythology.
it prompts him to accept the notion the life must go on.
it encourages him to honor the great painters behind the paintings.

The best option is letter A. It inspires him to reflect upon human suffering.

Explanation:

The poem "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden was inspired by Brueghel's painting of Icarus's fall after the sun melted his wax wings. According to the poem's speaker, certain artists were skilled when it came to capturing suffering and representing it in their work. The poem, then, proceed to contrast the feelings of those who are suffering and those who are not. People who are not suffering tend walk away from those who are, not wishing to inconvenience themselves with problems that are not their own. As the poem states:

About suffering they were never wrong,

The Old Masters: how well they understood

Its human position; how it takes place

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In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,

But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone

As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green

Water; 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.

answer: it means that he would rather write than preach.

explanation: its what it says

11-32. the main character in the parable, the forgiving father, whose character remains constant throughout the story, is a picture of god. in telling the story, jesus identifies himself with god in his loving attitude to the lost. the younger son symbolizes the lost (the tax collectors and sinners of that day, luke 15: 1), and the elder brother represents the self-righteous (the pharisees and teachers of the law of that day, luke 15: 2). the major theme of this parable seems not to be so much the conversion of the sinner, as in the previous two parables of luke 15, but rather the restoration of a believer into fellowship with the father. in the first two parables, the owner went out to look for what was lost (luke 15: 1-10), whereas in this story the father waits and watches eagerly for his son's return. we see a progression through the three parables from the relationship of one in a hundred (luke 15: 1-7), to one in ten (luke 15: 8-10), to one in one (luke 15: 11-32), demonstrating god’s love for each individual and his personal attentiveness towards all humanity. we see in this story the graciousness of the father overshadowing the sinfulness of the son, as it is the memory of the father’s goodness that brings the prodigal son to repentance (romans 2: 4).