W.H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” is an ekphrastic poem, which means what?
It’s based on an art piece.
Correct! Ekphrastic poems are poems based on an artwork—W.H. Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts” is based on Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.” Experience the poem, this time alongside the art that inspired it, here.