![]() The poem was written for the general public from the Greek tragedy. ![]() The poem was written in 1960, and was first published as part of a sequence in The Hudson Review. The second primary source I chose to analyze was the ecphrastic poem “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” written by the 20 th century American poet William Carlos Williams. The painting brings a lot of question to mind, like what thoughts were Icarus having as he plummeted to his death? Did anyone from any of the ships notice Icarus and what happened right after Icarus was fully submerged in the water? There isn’t really a way to find the answers to these questions besides reading the full myth and inferring what is going on the ships. Icarus was probably having one of the best days of his life with an escape from exile and the high from flying through the sky, while the other people in the painting are having an average day. ![]() The afternoon is peaceful and calm, but for Icarus, his world has come crashing down. Based on what I have observed I can infer this is a typical day for the people in the painting and no one really noticed the boy falling from the sky. Both the left and right top quadrant show the open sea with a few ships and mountains on the horizon. In the bottom left quadrant there is a mountain with a farmer plowing and a shepherd with his flock of sheep. The painting shows Icarus’s legs in the water in the right bottom quadrant of the photo, below a ship sailing. ![]() Pieter Bruegel captures the day Icarus fell to his death. Icarus ignored his father’s warning and flew too close to the sun, and the sun melted the wax and Icarus fell into the sea and drowned. The first primary source I analyzed was a 1558 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder called “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.” The painting showcases the tale from Greek Mythology where Icarus’s father Daedalus created wings made of feather and wax to escape from exile. ![]()
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