What element is included in both audens musee des beaux arts and williams landscape with the fall of icarus?

The ploughman and the splash of Icarus' fall.

Explanation:

Both poems - W. H. Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts and William's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - describe a picture by Pieter Brueghel. In both poems, the speakers focus on how easily people are able to ignore the misfortune and suffering of the boy who has just fallen from the sky into the sea.

The element that is mentioned by both is authors is the ploughman who keeps on working, indifferent to the splash caused by Icarus' fall.

Auden's:

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

William's:

According to Brueghel

when Icarus fell

it was spring

a farmer was ploughing

his field

the whole pageantry

of the year was

awake tingling

with itself

sweating in the sun

that melted

the wings' wax

unsignificantly

off the coast

there was

a splash quite unnoticed

this was

Icarus drowning

there is no paragraph seven here.

the characters are fiction but they are based off of people that were reaky in that situation