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"Musée de Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden reflects a combination of the modernist themes of "Art for Arts Sake" and "Alienation". Auden utilizes the theme "Art for Arts Sake" by digging deeper into several works of Pieter Brueghel, especially the "The Fall of Icarus". Auden describes how Icarus' legs disappear into the sea and how his wings melt as he got too close to the sun. Auden utilizes the theme "Alienation" by focusing on different viewpoints of those who are suffering and those who are not. Auden describes several human experiences involving suffering, one where a person is suffering terribly, while another person just continues on with their daily life. Auden highlights the contrast and gap between adult figures and children.

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"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a modernist poem that focuses on the theme of searching for truth. More specifically it tells of finding purpose in life and fighting to hold onto that purpose. It counters the modernist view of doubting purpose in life. The "good night" refers to death. The poem encourages people to fight death and to go on living another day. "Old age should burn and rage" this is saying people old and close to death should not embrace it but will to live on. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." This line is repeated multiple times as well as the title of the poem. Both are saying to fight and hold on to precious life so that you can continue to make a difference.

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"Talking in Bed" by Philip Larkin reflects a combination of the modernist themes of "Alienation" and "Search for Truth". Auden utilizes the theme of "Alienation" in the short poem "Talking in Bed" by focusing in on being isolated. Auden makes it clear there is isolation occurring by emphasizing there is only two people laying bed as time passes by, and that they are not cared for. Auden utilizes the theme of "Search for Truth" in the last stanza of "Talking in Bed" by focusing in on the struggle of truth. Auden creates uncertainty on determining the truth of words of other people.

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In Dylan Thomas’s Do not go Gentle into the Night he explores modernist theme, search for the truth, when he questions how one should live life and why. In each stanza he examines how different types of  men searched for the meaning of life/truth  and determines which died submissively and which fought for their life.

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This poem "Ambulances" by Philip Larkin is a modernist poem that strongly represents death. The poem takes the readers throughout a scene with vivid imagery of an ambulance that travels through a neighborhood. The modernist theme expressed in this poem could be Alienation because of the different viewpoints shown throughout the poem. Also, the ambulance and the person in the ambulance are isolated from the rest of the neighborhood/people watching. The poem represents death and human mortality because there is an abrupt arrival of an ambulance in a normal neighborhood which disrupts daily activity and shows how quickly a life can end.

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Talking in Bed by Philip Larkin has the modernist theme search for the truth in it. The poem examines the effect of time on a couple and how that as they grow closer together it becomes easier for them to lie to each other. The poem questions love and how honest it can be.

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"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas expresses the modernist theme of searching for truth. The speaker's main points are to fight against death, to not die easily, and to live life to the fullest. These points express the theme searching for truth because this theme describes the importance of one's place in society. The repetition of "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" is very significant as it fully relates back to the main message and instills the main idea of fighting against death into the readers.

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The poem, "Musée des Beaux Arts," by Wystan Hugh Auden strongly reflects the modernist theme of "Alienation." This theme is extremely prevelant throughout the entire poem. The poem by Auden goes on to focus on different viewpoints of individuals between those who are suffering and those who are not suffering. For example, within the second stanza of the poem, the children continue to play and the dogs live their lives as usual unconcerned about the tragedy of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ (Line 10: "That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course"). Basically, to summarize, this poem by Auden really shows human beings' indifference towards other human beings, which strongly relates to the theme of "Alienation."

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The poem, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," written by Dylan Thomas portrays the modernist theme of "Searching for Truth." Within the poem, Thomas talks about the four kinds of men: the wise men, the good men, the wild men, and the grave men. Each of these kinds of men have their specific views on death and how to live life. However, one line used frequently (repetition) throughout the poem, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light," really goes on to illustrate Thomas' purpose in writing this poem. Basically, Thomas wants individuals to fight against death and to live their lives to the fullest potential.

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The poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. Is about searching for the truth. A child is begging his father not to go away. But he also tells him "Do not go gentle into that good night" saying that if he has to go, to go prepared.

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In W. H. Audens's "Musee des Beaux Arts" the art for art's sake them is extremely prevalent in this poem. In this time period there seemed to be almost a gap between writers and the general public. Normally a modernist writer would allude to something that the common man may not be knowledgeable in. But, Auden ironically breaks modernist tradition by making peasant relating allusions. For example, Auden sites Brueghel and his famous Icarus painting in the last stanza. Brueghel was commonly know for his peasant imagery so this allusion would have been easy to comprehend for common people go against the the typical tradition of writers in this time period. Auden also refrences Jesus' birth in calling it the "miraculous birth" which would've have been an easy comparison for the readers to make.

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Talking in bed is about searching for truth. The poem reflects on the leisure of talking in bed but also it's time consumption. The last line of the first stanza says "an emblem of two people being honest" referring to their laying together. But in the end he says it become so hard to find words of truth and kindness. This points to the search because of his line "it still becomes more difficult to find" in the beginning of the last stanza

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"Talking in Bed" by Philip Larkin focuses on the theme searching for truth. He states how the two lovers laying there is an emblem of honesty, but as the poem goes on he is unsure of the truth. "Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind." These two last lines assures how he is unsure of the truth Andy is still looking for it.

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"Do Not Go Gentle to that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas focuses on the theme searching for truth. Dylan Thomas is searching for what happens after death because he is furious that people have to die in general. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" is repeated multiple times, the purpose of Thisbe is to show everyone should fight for their life.

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Musée des Beaux Arts represents "Alienation" throughout the poem. In line 1, the poem literally is saying that suffering happens to people.  In lines 7-10 ("Children... course") the writer is showing that some people are at the edge and on their own at some points in their life and even death must run its course at times.

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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night is representing the theme of "Searching for Truth". In the poem the speaker is trying to push to hold on and to not let go of the truth and what is really important to him. The speaker is pushing to hold on to whatever it may be. When the speaker says "Do not go gentle into that good night", the "good night" is referring to heaven and the "do not go" is the matter of dying.

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Talking In Bed is about searching for the truth and meaning in life. It does this through doubting a purpose in life. It briefly mention some nature in a few very important lines. "Outside, the wind's incomplete unrest..." It finishes these lines with "None of this cares for us." This links to the meaning of life. The nature of this world is harsh and uncaring of our lives.

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In the poem, "Talking in Bed," poet Philip Larkin uses the theme "Search for Truth" to tell a story. While this couple talks the night away, they grow farther apart. The bed is supposed to represent a a safe space, and a place where they can tell each other anything, but the relationship is surrounded by dishonesty. Larkin discusses the struggle to determine the difference between true and untrue. The longer they lay in the bed, the more they lie in the bed.

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In the poem, "Talking in Bed," poet Philip Larkin uses the theme "Search for Truth" to tell a story. While this couple talks the night away, they grow farther apart. The bed is supposed to represent a a safe space, and a place where they can tell each other anything, but the relationship is surrounded by dishonesty. Larkin discusses the struggle to determine the difference between true and untrue. The longer they lay in the bed, the more they lie in the bed.

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"Ambulances," by Philip Larkin is a poem about death. People stare as the ambulance drives through the neighborhood and passes everyday civilians. The healthy look on and are thankful that it is not them in that ambulance. The theme "Alienation" is evident in this modernist poem. All of the characters in this poem are alienated from one another. The ambulance rides through the neighborhood, with someone inside, while the women and children watch. They all live different lives and no one actually knows the person inside. They have different viewpoints of the scene, and their lives are disconnected from each other.

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In "Do Not go Gentle Into That Good Night", Dylan Thomas clearly utilizes the them of "searching for truth." The searching for truth theme requires Doubt in purpose in life and a rejection of the norms of society. In this poem Thomas tells people to reject the norms of inevediable death. Thomas continuously repeats the line, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Which means that people should fight as hard as they can against death and live life to the fullest.

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Philip Larkin's "Ambulances" is a poem with death being used as the central theme. The poem talks about someone who is being taken away to the hospital in an ambulance and how the person will probably not survive their illness. The poem also mentions how everyone near the ambulance is looking on and realizing that he or she could be the one being put into an ambulance. This creates a sense of alienation around the person being taken to the hospital, especially because no paramedics are even mentioned in the poem.

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In the poem, "Talking in Bed", Larkin uses the themes of "searching for truth" and "alienation" Larkin portrays alienation as the two people in the bed are basically isolated from the outside world. Also, the story revolves around the theme of searching for truth. The couple are in the bed where they are supposed to tell each other anything. But the more they are in the bed, the more they find it hard not to lie to each other. The poem shows the difficulty of figuring out what is true and untrue.

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W.H. Auden’s 1938 poem “Musée de Beaux Arts” examines the modernist theme of alienation. The first stanza takes a negative viewpoint on the human condition, examining how one human’s suffering is of no concern to other humans, who will live their lives unaware of the suffering of one with another viewpoint. The second stanza alludes to Brueghel’s painting “The Fall of Icarus” in its depiction of a ploughman totally oblivious to the nearby suffering of another.The view of the poem’s speaker towards human suffering demonstrates alienation between people.

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Dylan Thomas’s 1951 poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”  examines a search for truth. The speaker names several categories of men and details why each should resist dying an easy death. Each category is said to have not achieved their purpose in life and therefore should not “go gentle.” This lofty call to press forward with one’s life demonstrates a search for truth.

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In the poem "Talking in bed" it displays a modernist theme of searching for truth, it talks about how the lovers are in bed together and that she where the honesty is and where time passes. But later in the poem they are growing far apart "at this unique distance from isolation" and don't know what's happening, also the honesty and true kind words turn into untrue and unkind

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"Do Not Go Gentile into That Good Night" is a modernist poem searching for the truth of not giving into death. A poet not writing in the modernist theme may view death as a symbol and look into the deeper meaning of it, but in a modernist view we should be fighting death and looking for the reasons of death. In Thomas's words he is using powerful diction to create a tone of sorrow, reflecting on world wars as many modernist poets did.

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The poem "Talking in Bed" by Philip Larkin puts great emphasis on the modernist themes of Alienation and the Search for Truth. Larkin directly points to Alienation when he uses the word "isolation" in the ninth line. He is saying that being in bed separates you from the rest of the world. Larkin also creates a sense of difficulty in finding the truth with the final two lines of the poem: "Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind."

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In "do not go gentle into that good night" there is a modernist theme of searching for truth. In the poem there I still alot  of talk about different men and the closeness to death. The poem creates a very sad and depressing feeling to it because of the death in it, the author continuously reminds the men not to go gentle into that good night maybe because of the search for truth and the men might not know what they're getting into

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"Talking in bed" by Philip Larkin reflects the theme of searching for truth. Throughout the poem Larkin is describing the simplicity of two people laying in bed together, but how it makes them realize there loneliness and separation. It is also interesting how Larkin writes 3 lines and no two lines rhyme together, only the 3 at the end. This could resemble there being someone or something being in the way and not being able to be talked about.

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Alienation is a major modernist theme present in "Talking in Bed" by Philip Larking. The speaker speaks to the isolation that they feel even when laying in bed next to another person. The speaker says that this time ought to be the easiest conversation. Yet the subject still finds great difficulty and feels a separation. The subject says that it should be the easiest to talk truthfully here but in reality you lie often.

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Throughout the poem, Auden observes how individual suffering goes unnoticed by the world in his theme of "Alienation." Most people continue their everyday lives without paying any attention to extraordinary events going on, the kind that poets and painter usually depict. In particular, Bruegel shows the tragedy of Icarus falling from the sky as if it we're totally inconsequential to anything else. Oblivious to what is happening to Icarus, no one is distracted from proceeding with business as usual.

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"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is the speaker's "search for truth" as he tries to figure out what it means to age closer and closer to an inevitable death, especially if the aging person becomes frail and starts to lose his or her faculties. In order to restore power and dignity, the speaker urges the dying to fight their fate and cling tenaciously onto life.

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In the form of the poem itself, Auden achieves a sense of an alienated narration. The rhyming pattern is disgruntled and the diction is not consistent. In the first 13 lines of the poem, the language is much more poetic and dense like the line "How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting," while after line 14 the language becomes more colloquial and readable using enjambment to guide the reader on.  The speaker recognizes that in some search for truth about human suffering, the "Old Masters" were never wrong in recognizing it as inevitable and thus commonplace.

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The poem seems like a somewhat direct response to the impending death of the narrator's father.  In the speaker's attempt possibly to find something to console him in this time of loss, he/she rejects society's suggestion to accept death, but instead seeks to challenge it.  The speaker recognizes that wise men accept their death, but claims that good and serious men fight against it.

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“Musée de Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden talks about the Icarus and further explains via the theme of alienation, because he uses the idea that there are more people suffering in society than we are. He uses this comparison to the Icarus and how it’s legs begin to melt as it gets to close to the sun. I do have some questions about the end of the poem when it says “Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.” What exactly does that mean because I am having trouble finding it’s connection to the Icarus and the rest of the poem.

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In the poem “Talking in Bed” by Philip Larkin, the theme of Alienation is very evident throughout the poem. I see this mainly in the last four lines of the poem. And I see this as the idea that someone is more than just isolated it’s that they are so different that this ostracization is worse than most kinds. It goes on to say that this person is trying to find that point where they will fit in with society. “It becomes more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.”

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In Philip Larkin’s Talking In Bed. I believe the most prominent modernist theme is the Search for Truth. In the time the poem was written divorce was not a possibility especially for women as it meant giving up on the marriage. Thus the concept of possible divorce is “a rejection of the norms of society.”

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Alienation was a huge part of Auden’s Musée de Beaux Arts. It made an allusion to a painting about the Tale of Icarus, a Greek myth about a boy escaping a prison with his father with wax wings, he flew too close to the sun and fell. The text is less about the tale but post-fall. His legs are sticking out of the surface but everywhere else is nice and serene. Contrary to possible general belief, terrible things happen and everything else in the world is as it was. This carried a level of alienation in it as it goes against the whole helpful passerby belief that would have been existent among Victorian beliefs.