Emily Dickinson Icarus

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“The question is not what you look at, but what you see,” quote by Henry David Thoreau. Icarus is a mythical story about how a father, Daedalus, and his son, Icarus, created a pair of wings for both to fly in the horizon. Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high for the wax will melt and not too low for the sea will dampen his wings. Of course, Icarus’s stubbornness caused him to fly too high and the wax to melt. He fell to his death into the ocean and drowned. The way we perceive our surroundings may differ from others around us. Some may have a different perspective, others may have the same, it all depends in how one may view it.
Emily Dickinson is a well-known poet known for her unique poems. Some famous works of hers include: I taste

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