25 Ekim 2016 Salı

small background info for the poem "Musee des Beaux Arts" by Auden



The story of Icarus:

In Greek mythologyIcarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Ancient GreekἼκαροςÍkarosEtruscanVikare[1]) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Often depicted in art, Icarus and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus' father warns him first of complacency and then of hubris, asking that he fly neither too low nor too high, so the sea's dampness would not clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them. Icarus ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, when the wax in his wings melted and he fell into the sea. 

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