Read the lines from Robert Hayden’s poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” then look at the detail from Claude Monet’s painting Water Lilies.

Today as the news from Selma and Saigon
poisons the air like fallout,
I come again to see
the serene, great picture that I love.

A detail from Water Lilies by Claude Monet. It shows blue-green lily pads and yellow-orange flowers on dark green water.

Why does the speaker like to view Monet’s Water Lilies?
to view art purely for art’s sake
to escape unpleasant news
to be exposed to stark reality
to escape poisonous air

The speaker likes to view the Monet's Water Lilies to:

"to escape unpleasant news".

Explanation:

The poem "Monet's Lilies", by Robert Hayden is an English poem sonnet that expresses the relief and solace that the poet feels when he views the French artist's painting of the water lily.

The poet prefers to go back to viewing the painting as it makes him escape the unruly and unpleasant news that he gets to read in the morning paper. Hence to take his mind off it all, he takes himself to view and get deeply lost in the painting.

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