Question about Icarus

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 the old man and the little kid, and also the man in red clothe who is farming in the field. On the right side, I see Icarus’s feet in the ocean, which shows that he fell from the sky and fell into the sea. I also see some ships and rocks on the surface of the ocean. By the near views, I can see sheep and trees…etc. I guess the painter is trying to convey that though Icarus fell from the sky, the world is still working and the people are still doing thing they’re suppose to do. And I guess that the painter paint the man farming with the color red is trying to make people focus on him instead of Icarus.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?I think that the “Old Masters” that he refers to is Breughel.“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. AudenAbout suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters: how well, they understoodIts human position; how it takes placeWhile someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waitingFor the miraculous birth, there always must beChildren who did not specially want it to happen, skatingOn a pond at the edge of the wood:They never forgotThat even the dreadful martyrdom must run its courseAnyhow in a corner, some untidy spotWhere the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horseScratches its innocent behind on a tree.In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns awayQuite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman mayHave heard the splash, the forsaken cry,But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shoneAs it had to on the white legs disappearing into the greenWater; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seenSomething amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.