Limitations of Human empathy in Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts

Abstract

"Musée des Beaux Arts" is a powerful meditation on the limitations of human empathy and the ways in which art can help us overcome them. Through its vivid imagery and thoughtful observations, the poem encourages us to look beyond the surface of our everyday lives and connect more deeply with the experiences of others. This research examines how Auden's works have a power in limitation and meditation inside human soul. It puts human in a comparison with a chaotic world, human suffers with less abilities to face this world by meditation. The type of power, which Auden intends,  is the power of art to pass limitations like using imagery and allusion.