Musee des Beaux Arts-W.H.Auden

1. What do you see in the picture? Where is Icarus? What are the other figures in the picture? Why does the painter try to convey through the arrangement of the figures in the painting?     

       I see a farmer is going home. A shepherd is tending sheep. A kid is playing on thebeach. Icarus is in the sea near the ship. I think the painter try to convey the desire to flyof Icarus. But when he falls into the sea, nobody notice him. It means people won’taffect though Icarus falls down.

2. In your own words sum up what, according to the speaker (in lines 1-13), the Old Masters understood about human suffering. And who are the “Old Masters” that he refers to?

      The Old Master refers to the painter.

MOTHER TONGUE

1.What is from of this piece of the writing? Fiction, prose, or poetry?
  Is the narrator the auther?
 
 (1)First, she is a writer, she talked about her life nowadays, and then
    she traced back to the past life. Finally, she turned the story back
    now.
 (2)The story is a prose.
 (3)Yes, the story is her personal experience. And she talked many her ideas
    un the story.
3.What is the family background of the auther? How does she feel proud of it
  or embarrassed about it?

 (1)The auther is an ABC. Her mother is a migrant. Her mother spoke poor English
    , because of this, she thought she might speak poor English.
 (2)First, she was ashamed of it. For example, her mother went to the hospital,
    but no one took notice of her because of her poor English. But Amy(the auther)
    could do nothing to help that.
 (3)She first felt embarrassed about it, but at last, she was accept and was proud
    of it. According to the paragraph of count backwards the second, “I wanted to
    capture what……..the nature of her thoughts.” expressed her proud.