Everybody Dies (by Billie Eilish) ~Ashlyn Scism

     I wanted to focus on Musée des Beaux Arts by Auden. The ideas posed by Auden are very interesting. In the poem, he analyzed a painting of Icarus and how it can symbolize reality. Icarus is depicted as about to drown but the rest of the painting is beautifully unaware of his plight. Similarly, in real life, bad things happen every day, but often life goes on barely stopping to acknowledge that anything is amiss. It’s a rather sad concept to think that people do not care when tragedies occur but it is true. How many times do we see death on the news, hear of accidents on the radio, or sirens on the road rushing off to help the injured? We might pause a moment to acknowledge the gravity of the situation but how quickly do we move on? We continue going about our everyday business and forget about the event. 

It is only when the event directly affects us that we remember. The more it impacts you the more debilitating it can be. We cannot easily move on with all the little reminders of what we’ve lost or the injuries we have sustained. The tragedy leaves a mark, whether physical or emotional. This is to be somewhat expected, however, there are times when being indirectly impacted by a tragedy can have a strange effect. For example, someone I knew passed away last fall. We weren’t close but we had grown up together. His death has had a varying effect on me. Most of the time I forget, but then something will remind me, and I become overwhelmed with sadness. I’m sad he’s gone for his sake but also for his family and the world who will never know what he was capable of. He was brilliant and could have done so much good in the world.

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