Poem 'Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus'

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The landscape With The Fall Of Icarus In the story “Landscape with the fall of Icarus” by Pieter Brueghel the painting explains the background of the story. In the Poem “Landscape with the fall of Icarus” by William Carlos Williams the poem starts to explain even more about how everyone was busy and didn’t notice Icarus. The author Pieter Bruegel started painting the painting to explain more about how Icarus thought he could fly and didn’t listen to his father. And William Carlos Williams wrote the poem to explain what happened before Icarus flew out of the cave thinking he knew. Both “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Brueghel and “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by William Carlos Williams use the myth of Icarus to show that people are so concerned with their own lives that they do not acknowledge the troubles of people around them. In the painting “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Brueghel, it shows how a tragedy has happened due to Icarus not listening to his father. Once Icarus has fallen in the water nobody is able to see what is going on due to everyone being busy in the town. The time this painting was painted was in the 1560’s and was based off a Greek mythology named “The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.” The painting “The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” was originally lost and was gone till 1558 to 1560 until Brueghel painted another one. Some thoughts on the poem are “ “Landscape with the fall of Icarus” touches upon the Greek

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