People create many different forms of art in their own distinct way to express themselves. William Carlos Williams was inspired to write the poem “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” while using the precision of imagery with a clear, sharp language to portray a meaningful lesson. The purpose of the poem was to illustrate the scenes using common speech and without using symbols to describe the surrounding natural world and all of the spectacle. This poem is based on the landscape painting by Pieter Brueghel, which portrays a scene from the Greek myth using many illustrations to appeal to the eye and capture the day that Icarus attempted to fly and plummeted to the ocean. Both artists used their own imagist styles to portray the essential moral from the Icarus myth.
The classical myth depicts the tragedy of Icarus, a boy who flew too close to the sun with wax wings and fell into the sea to his death. The father Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun. Disobeying his father, Icarus flew towards the sun, melted his wings, and fell into the sea below and drowned. The main notion in the painting is that
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Myths mainly try to respond to eternal questions, such as the origin of the existence of good and evil and they seem to give words of wisdom and guidance to every generation. For example, the famous epic poem The Odyssey tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus, a clever man who struggles for ten years to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Throughout his difficult journey, he displays heroism through his bravery and loyalty. Odysseus was an arrogant man who refused to honor the gods for their help but realized the significance of the gods when he needed them to return home. The lesson of this myth is similar to the Fall of Icarus as they both portray that you should listen to the wiser people and not be