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
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning
William Carlos Williams
“a splash quite unnoticed […]” Just gives me chills.
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It’s such a great poem, isn’t it. I used to teach it to my students and got some great work from them
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For fun I am taking a poetry course and just now we are enjoying WCW. so much depends…
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