How Is Diction Used In The Fall Of Icarus

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The tragedy often forced upon mankind is that they are often doomed to fail. In the interpreted sources by Brueghel, Auden, and Williams, the authors and artist illustrate the story of a man failing and not being able to redeem himself. Through the use of diction and imagery, in all three works of literature and art, the readers are presented with three, similar yet different, story’s that all have the same theme that failure is a rite of passage, that every man and women will have to experience.
In Brueghel’s “The Fall of Icarus”, the artist uses brush strokes and oils to express and illustrate the tragic failure of man. Through the use of imagery, the viewer is allowed to fully comprehend the meaning and theme of the oil-tempera. In the painting the viewers see, what is believed to be Icarus’s legs drowning in the water below, while everyone continued to go on with their daily activities. The image depicted in the painting establishes the central idea of man’s failure by displaying the course of Icarus catastrophic death and the fall he undergoes. However, the painting differs …show more content…

In the poem it describes how the death, did not affect anyone. In the text it states, “the ploughman may have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, but for him it was not an important failure” and “,, the expensive delicate ship that must have seen something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.” Auden uses these two statements to express how the surrounding people felt towards his death. They simply didn’t care; his failure was not important to them. Also, in this text the central idea of mans failure is portrayed by Icarus falling for his failure to stay in the exact height and distance from the sky, this constant height was necessary for his wings not to melt. However, Icarus died by his own ambition for

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