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  Image  Source- Wikipedia A British playwright, screenplay writer, actor, and theatre director, John Osborne (1929-1994) was born on 12 December 1929 in Fulham, London. His father,  Thomas Godfrey Osborne , was a lower-middle-class commercial artist and copywriter from Wales, and his mother , Nellie Beatrice Grove , belonged to a working-class family of publication. His father died of tuberculosis in 1941, and his death left an impact on Osborne and his writing.  He began his education in a State school but was transferred to Devon, a lesser public boarding school, in 1943. In 1945, he was expelled from school because he hit the headmaster.  He worked as a journalist on trade papers suck as Gas , World , Nursery World , and Miller , but always dreamed to work in theatre. Eventually, he joined the theatre as an assistant stage manager, touring with a repertory company. In 1950 , his acting career flourished when he visited the Ilfracombe and London areas. ...

The free verse poem "Musee des Beaux Arts" (Museum of Fine Arts) was composed by British-American poet Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) in December 1938 when he was in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. It was published in 1939 under the title " Palais des Beaux-Arts " (Palace of Fine Arts).  The title of this poem is derived from ' Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique '; it's a French name for the  Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. The museum is famous for its collection of early Netherlandish paintings. The poem has two parts. The first part describes the scene of suffering while others are busy in their daily course and the massacre of children. The second part refers to a painting of Icarus that allows the reader to visualize the indifference of humans.  The central theme of this poem is  human indifference .  To deal with it he incorporated three paintings that he saw in a gallery named, Old Master Museum in  Brussels, Belgium .  Explanation :...