Landscape With Icarus

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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a painting and poem about how no one cares what one person is feeling or going through. All they care about are themselves. Both Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel and “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by William Carlos Williams's use the myth of Daedalus and Icarus to show that every single human has to live life for themselves and sometimes the pain and tragedy one person is feeling goes unnoticed to the rest of the world.
William Carlos William was born in 1883. William was an American poet and physician. He was educated in Geneva, Switzerland, Univ. of Pennsylvania (“William Carlos Williams”). He grew up in New Jersey and became a doctor(“William Carlos Williams”). William also

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