Friday, August 24, 2018

The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus Unfolded

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Bruehgal

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

High School version of the story

DAEDALUS AND ICARUS (PLUS PHAETON) RETOLD BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY)


Daedalus


Icarus


The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins