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"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" touches upon the Greek myth of the tragedy of Icarus. As we know, according to Ovid and Appolodorus, Icarus, son of Daedalus, took flight from imprisonment wearing the fragile wings his father had fashioned for him. Heedless of his father's warning to keep a middle course over the sea and avoid closeness with the sun, the soaring boy exultantly flew too close to the burning sun, which melted his wings so that Icarus hurtled to the sea and death.
Williams creates a vivid image of the surrounding landscape. This takes away from the seemingly tragic death of Icarus, and overrides it with something as average as landscape.
There are two allusions in this poem. One being Brueghel who is a painter. The other allusion is Icarcus, the son of Daedalus, who is a master craftsman.
The pain and tragedy that one person faces may go unnoticed to the rest of the world.
The type of poem is narrative because it tells a story. Written in free verse, there are no set stanzas and no distinct rhyme scheme. The poet creates three line stanzas. There is no punctuation or capitalization within the poem, making it one long sentence.
Williams used certain words to downplay Icarcus' death and show that he wasn't important.