In Class Esssay "Landscape with the fall of icarus"

In "landscape with the fall of Icarus", William Carlos Williams suggests that everythign has a reason and a deeper meaning behind it by showing us reasons and personifications.




In the the poem "landscape with the fall of Icarus" he symbolizes many things. One thing he says is " it was spring" and he uses the seaoson to symbolize life. Then as we read onto the second stanza you start to focus on the farmer and what the setting around him looks like. He also uses personification when he refferences the "sea being concerned with itself". Williams also leaves us with questions after you read "sweating in the sun" because its too vague for you to anwser.

In the book "the story of Daedalus and Icarus" by Ovid he writes that the men Daedalus and Icarus where exiled from there homeland and plan on escaping. Daedalus found the only way to escape and that was by flying because the "sea held him there". Little did they know they cant change the laws of nature and this led to the dead of Icarus.


In the painting by peter Bruegel the colors of the trees and the man plowing tells me that it must be spring. There is also this island in the middle that relates to the island in the myth of Daedalus and Icarus. Also is you look in the water you can see Icarus drowning. There are also many people on the hill that could of helped but they were concerned with themselves.

All three things tie into each other by portraying what is happening. In the myth of Daedalus and Icarus the men hard to fly with a set of wings made of wax which didn't work because you can see Icarus drowning. in the picture and you can read it in the last stanza of the poem. The second stanza in the poem talks about a farmer plowing which relates to the picture because you can see him working .

In concluding those where the ways that Ovid, Bruegel, and Williams all related to one another. The myth was written first, then the picture, then the poem. And this is all important because you get to see the bigger picture of everything instead of the basic meaning.