Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus - A poem by William Carlos Williams


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William Carlos Williams - Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus

According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring

a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry

of the year was
awake tingling
near

the edge of the sea
concerned
with itself

sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax

unsignificantly
off the coast
there was

a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning

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Poet: William Carlos Williams Poem: Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus Comment 3 of 3, added on December 26th, 2005 at 8:05 AM. Compare this poem to that of W H Auden's poem on the same subject. Two poems which use the painting for strikingly different purposes. David McLaughlin from United Kingdom Comment 2 of 3, added on June 16th, 2005 at 2:20 PM. At six feet above m.s.l The scope of my sight across seascape Ceases at six miles Where sea meets sky at the earthends. But an inteminable impression Of space and distance draws me From pasture and plogh and fishing To the destinies of my doom. R.Lakshman. Raman Lakshman from India Comment 1 of 3, added on June 15th, 2005 at 4:21 PM. It is true that we who push the boundaries to be noticed, only can hope that the footprints are not in sand, rather, in concrete, so that all may remember us. Jayme from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus, has received 3 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by William Carlos Williams with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: William Carlos Williams Poem: Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus Last read: Jul 25 2008, 7:57PM Viewed 11087 times. Added on June 15th, 2005 at 4:21 PM.

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