Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: Distinction, University of Bath, course: Access to Higher Education, language: English, abstract: Musee des Beaux Arts is a poem that was written by Wystan Hugh Auden in 1938 following his reflections after a visiting a museum. A practical criticism of the poem will analyse the influences and poetic devices of the poem in order to elaborate on the text's messages and themes.