This is a close reading aka analysis of the poem "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by William Carlos Williams.

The poem "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", by William Carlos Williams, portrays in writing the painting by Brueghel. The piece depicts the Greek myth of the tragedy of Icarus, a boy who flew too close to the sun with wax wings and fell into the sea to his death. The poem has no set rhyme scheme or meter, an example of one of Williams' many free verse poems. After reading the poem many times, I started sensing a feeling of insignificance; that the tragic event of Icarus' death was "quite unnoticed".
One factor contributing to this feeling was the stanza organization. Each stanza was very…