Anne Sexton uses the tale of Daedalus and Icarus to help symbolize and reiterate her ideas in her poem “To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph”. The main ideas that Sexton had were risk, warnings, and being overconfident. In the original story of Daedalus and Icarus the father and son duo are trapped in an extremely tall tower where they are to stay until their respective deaths. The father and son develop wings that allow them to fly/glide and set out to use this invention to escape their imprisonment. Daedalus warns Icarus numerous times to not play around with the wings in the sky and to head straight for town. Icarus ignores his father’s instructions and confidently plays in the sky with his new found ability of flight. The glue that
