Langdon Hammer continues his discussion of W. H. Auden in this Yale Modern Poetry lecture (ENGL 310), recorded in Spring 2007. Hammer examines Auden's treatment of Brueghel's Fall of Icarus in the poem Musee des Beaux Arts, tracing how the poem frames suffering as something that happens while ordinary life continues around it. He then turns to the elegies In Memory of W. B. Yeats and In Memory of Sigmund Freud, reading the latter as a recasting of Freud's talking cure into a model for how poetry works on its readers. The lecture closes with In Praise of Limestone, discussed as a late allegorical vision of a secular, non-transcendental earthly paradise. Close readings of the poems anchor each section, with Hammer moving line by line through imagery and argument rather than summarizing themes in the abstract.