practice 1 Analysis/Response pre-writing

Subject:”About suffering they were never wrong,

The Old Masters: how well they understood

Its human position; how it takes place” everyone suffers everyone deals with it differently

Imagery

Tone” In Brueghel’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.” people turn away from suffering just look the other way, even when a boy maybe falling from the sky because your things you may have to do are more important

stanza/line structure “While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting

For the miraculous birth, there always must be

Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating

On a pond at the edge of the wood:” splitting up the line to add a pause for emphasis