Musee des Beaux Arts 

W. H. Auden 

About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:

They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
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. 

Analysis:

Considering the title the intelligent reader is curious to find out the reason why the title is written in French.

He expects the poem be about a specific type of museum.

The poem is arranged into two stanzas, there are free verses thus it doesn't follow a regular pattern.

All verses begin with a capital letter.

The title is written in French because the poet is inspired by the "Musee des beaux arts" in Belgium.

All the core meanings are associated with a specific painting that are on the Museum.

The authority position of “old Master” indeed is inspired by a namesake collection.

After the reading the intelligent reader could understand that the poem should be an argumentative text in verse. In the first  stanza there is the thesis arranged into a metaphor.

Instead in the second stanza there is an example of the thesis, an argumentation.

There are a lot of enjambment.

Aged are compared with children, old men are waiting instead children are skating so they are moving on, despite as old men that are static.

The poem has got a lot of perception verbs like "heard" and "seen" that suggest a sense of passivity, things append in spite of people will.