“The Many Meanings Of The Myth Of Icarus”

Part I of Essay
A story can often have more than one meaning. One person may perceive something different then someone else. Although the writer may have a specific meaning that he is trying to display, it is all right for the reader to pick up something different. The myth of Icarus has ....

Part II of Essay
.... To Triumph” Anne Sexton has put a women’s touch on the myth. She is saying do not look at the fact that he failed, look at the difference he made by trying, “Think of the difference it made!” The Myth of Icarus can also be seen by an artist’s standpoint. Obviously, the main character is Icarus and what happens to him. In William Carlos William’s “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus” he reverses the roles. Instead of Icarus being the main point, he makes the background stand out, “The farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry.” He te ....