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.
