Get Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus Poem By William Carlos Williams Images. Sweating in the sun that melted the wings' wax. William carlos williams was an imagist, that is he ascribed to the view that poetry should be simplified, stripped of victorian romanticism and focus this poem is a reaction to pieter bruegel's, landscape with fall of icarus.
Williams first published the poem as part of a sequence in the hudson review in 1960,1 subsequently using the sequence as the poem, as indicated by the title, touches upon the story from ovid's metamorphoses, in which icarus, the son of daedalus, took flight from crete, where he and his.
The death of an unlucky aviator is of no more importance than the fall of a sparrow. According to brueghel when icarus fell it was spring. The stars are about to melt and fall on you in tears. By william carlos (wcw) williams.