Context for William Carlos Williams's poems: The Dance and Landscape with the Fall of Icarus a

Pieter Bruegel and his paintings:

the Painting by Bruegel: Landscape of The Fall of Icarus 

Context to the Painting: Landscape of The Fall of Icarus 

                                      

the proverb that inspired Bruegel: 

The painting by Bruegel which is used by William Carlos Williams for his poem The Dance: