Sunday, October 3, 2010

The 1st in-class essay on "landscape with the fall of the Icarus"

“Homesick for homeland, Daedalus hated Crete and his long exile there…”
This sentence from ovid’s metamorphoses translated the pain of a man, the pain of being away from home.
“surely the sky is open, and that's the way we'll go."
This is the words of a hopeful man. In "landscape with the fall of Icarus",William Carlos Williams told us that it was in spring that daedalus', father of Icarus, had to suffer from the death of his son by trying to save him from emprisonment.

The sun shone with all it's rays; the clouds, even combined, couldn't stop the sun from delivering it's delightful light and warmth. This, according to Bruegel and Williams, was a spring day.

in his poem, William Carlos Williams first described how regular the day was. Exactly the same thing that first appears in bruegel's  illustration.

This sunny day was described in prelude of the dramatic melting of the wax from Icarus' wings. Williams continues with the description of the people around, a farmer, he says, was ploughing his field. Then he adds that the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling.

This states that this day was a good, sunny and ordinary day in which everybody was doing their ordinary activities.The edge of the sea tanned by the sun was as usual in the same place because it couldn't move.

Williams wanted to show that everything has a special place, the farmer, the edge of the sea. They all have their places and God made them as well and this is why they can't move or change places.

'I warn you, Icarus, fly a middle course..."
This was Daedalus's words to his son. but soon:
"unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticeable, this was Icarus drowning."
Williams describes th efall of Icarus into the water.

This is a consequence of Icarus disobeying his father.

As conclusion, Williams in his poem explained how the earth was made and all it's surroundings. He shows that they'll have their place and it's futile to try to change their settlement or you will have to face the consequences, that are not always good ones.

I think that this sentence should resume th e myth: each thing in the world has it's own course and speeds at its own velocity, It can not and will not modify its caracteristics for a single event.

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