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How are W. H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and William Carlos Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" similar?A.Both poems describe Icarus's feelings of fear.B.Both poems focus on how Icarus's death is ignored.C.Both poems discuss the large city in the distance.D.Both poems mention several attempts to rescue Icarus

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How are W. H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and William Carlos Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" similar?A.Both poems describe Icarus's feelings of fear.B.Both poems focus on how Icarus's death is ignored.C.Both poems discuss the large city in the distance.D.Both poems mention several attempts to rescue Icarus

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The similarity between W. H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and William Carlos Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" lies in option B. Both poems focus on how Icarus's death is ignored. They both depict the indifference of the world towards individual suffering and tragedy, using the myth of Icarus as a metaphor. The other options are not accurate. Neither of the poems describe Icarus's feelings of fear (A), discuss a large city in the distance (C), or mention several attempts to rescue Icarus (D).

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