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The skating children in Auden’s poem and Bruegel’s painting represent humans as a whole: skating through life just hoping that nothing will change, but always on the brink – “On a pond at the edge of the wood” – of something amazing and incredible, if only they would look for it. Here are 4...

The skating children in Auden’s poem and Bruegel’s painting represent humans as a whole: skating through life just hoping that nothing will change, but always on the brink – “On a pond at the edge of the wood” – of something amazing and incredible, if only they would look for it. Here are 4...

The skating children in Auden’s poem and Bruegel’s painting represent humans as a whole: skating through life just hoping that nothing will change, but always on the brink – “On a pond at the edge of the wood” – of something amazing and incredible, if only they would look for it. Here are 4...