Question

99 POINTS!! HELP ME PLEASE!! ASAP!!

Write a synthesis paragraph of about three hundred words showing the connection between Brueghel’s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and Williams’ poem “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.” The most important thing for you to do is to explain how the two poems are similar.

Answer 1

Answer:The story of Icarus and Daedalus, a Greek myth:

Icarus’ father, Daedalus, gives him wings. The feathers of the wings were made out of wax. Daedalus warns Icarus not to fly too close to the sun. Disobeying his father, Icarus flew towards the sun, melted his wings, and fell into the sea below and drowned.

I’ve been studying the life and works of the Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder for a few months now. He is often remembered as the greatest painter to emerge from the 16th century. Bruegel’s genre and landscape scenes are what inspired him the most and earned him the name “Peasant Bruegel”. His works displayed honest depictions of the peasant life and the rural country sides. Towards the end of his career, Bruegel became increasingly interested with the human figure and its relationship with the natural world. In all his paintings, human activity is the dominant theme. In the 1560’s, Bruegel painted “Landscape With The Fall of Icarus”.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

(NOTE: it is not about two poems, it is about a poem and a painting)

In the first place, Williams' poem begins with a direct reference to Brueghel's painting ( According to Brueghel ..). The poem is actually a description of the painting and in the end, there is an attempted explanation of its meaning.

In the beginning, Williams descibes the image (it was spring, a farmer was ploughing, near the edge of the sea e.t.c.). If we observe the painting, we can easily see the farmer, who is in the foreground and is wearing a bright red garment. We can see that he is ploughing his field near the edge of the sea and that it is actually spring.

Williams mentions Icarus from the very beginning (When Icarus fell...) whereas it is not as easy to discern Icarus when we look at the painting for the first time. Brueghel has not chosen to reveal the meaning of the painting so easily. Icarus is not the main figure in the painting, as he is placed in the right corner and we can only see his feet because he is already falling in the sea. On the other hand, the image of the farmer attracts our attention (he is placed in the centre and the painter intentionally uses a very strong colour - red - to guide us there). There are also other figures in the painting, who do not appear in the poem: a fisherman who is fishing from a cliff right above the falling Icarus, a shepherd with his sheep looking up in the sky and a ship very close to Icarus, where we can actually see some sailors - one of them is climbing a rope ladder.

All the above are not described in the poem, but they are contained in the phrase ...the whole ......concerned with itself , which denotes the indifference of everyone to this dramatic event. The fact that the poet uses the words 'unsignificantly' and 'unnoticed' also is similar to the way the painter placed Icarus - he is unsignificant, so he is placed in a small corner of the painting.