Icarus and Deadulus

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In Depth Comparison of Two Poems Analyzing the poems "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" (1963) by William Carlos WIlliams and "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph" (1962) by Anne Sexton have each shown a different point of view to "The Story of Daedalus and Icarus" by Ovid and how the react to Icarus' flight. An intense breakdown of each poem occurred with looking at rhyme, tone, words, phrases and patterns and are discussed further. Although the poems have comparisons, and relate to the same main story, the focus will be on how the speakers characterize Icarus' flight differently and what is the effect of these differences. The biggest part of any poem is word choice and figurative language. These two poems show a vast amount of imagery within the writing but it is used in a different way to create a different result. Williams poem creates a vivid image of the surrounding landscape throughout the poem and it comes off with a happier tone for "the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near"(6). This line shows some irony because the poem is mainly about Icarus' death, and Williams is talking about being "awake." Relating to this irony is Williams talking about a farmer on land doing his daily job, "a farmer was ploughing"(4) and the sea connecting to the land doing what is always does, "the edge of the sea concerned with itself"(10) because this man and this ocean are just mainly concerned with themselves, not the death of Icarus. This evidence, including the word in the title "Landscape" and two important words "insignificantly"(16) and "unnoticed"(19) in the stanzas all connect back to the main idea of what Williams in trying to portray about this poem which is taking the spotlight off of the death of Icarus and identifying that every human lives for themselves and no matter what goes on in the ocean, the people on land still live their every

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