W. H. Auden: Poems

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In "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden, what is the response of the people who see Icarus fall into the sea?

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People did not seem to care much,

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure;