Having the paintings right in front of me while I read the 2 poems really helped. It gave me something to visualize and it helped me understand what the poems were about. I found that not only did it help me understand the poetry but it also helped with the understanding of the paintings. In "Before the Mirror" when Updike says "She bounced between reflection and reality." it helped me see the painting as two different realities, the way the girl and the way she sees herself.
In "Musee des Beaux Arts" Auden says "the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure, . . . " It made me look more closely at the painting, to pay attention at the details. Also, it helped me understand way no one in the painting cared why there was a drowning man.
(I hope I made sense)
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