Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" share which common element?A.Icarus tries desperately to stay in the air.B.Minos pursues Icarus and kills him.C.The role of Daedalus in Icarus's drowning is left out.D.Witnesses try to help Icarus before he drowns.
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Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" share which common element?A.Icarus tries desperately to stay in the air.B.Minos pursues Icarus and kills him.C.The role of Daedalus in Icarus's drowning is left out.D.Witnesses try to help Icarus before he drowns.
Solution
The common element shared by Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is C. The role of Daedalus in Icarus's drowning is left out. Both poems focus on the fall of Icarus, but neither mentions Daedalus, Icarus's father, who in the original myth was a crucial character as he was the one who crafted the wings that Icarus used to fly and warned him not to fly too close to the sun.
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