Poetry of life against prosaic life
The passage “Icarus and Daedalus” by Josephine Preston Peabody and the poem “Icarus” by Wendy A. Shaffer tell us about the same event: the tragic death of Icarus who neglected his father's instructions. In their works both authors pay special attention to various aspects of nature, such as bird feathers, the sun, and water. However, the roles that they assign to these aspects are very different.
J. P. Peabody tells us that Daedalus watching seagulls in the air comes to an idea of designing wings to escape from Crete. Next, she describes in details, as if she writes an assembly instruction, the whole process of constructing wings. “Little by little, he gathered a store of feathers great and small. He fastened
The passage “Icarus and Daedalus” by Josephine Preston Peabody and the poem “Icarus” by Wendy A. Shaffer tell us about the same event: the tragic death of Icarus who neglected his father's instructions. In their works both authors pay special attention to various aspects of nature, such as bird feathers, the sun, and water. However, the roles that they assign to these aspects are very different.
J. P. Peabody tells us that Daedalus watching seagulls in the air comes to an idea of designing wings to escape from Crete. Next, she describes in details, as if she writes an assembly instruction, the whole process of constructing wings. “Little by little, he gathered a store of feathers great and small. He fastened