In "landscape with the fall of Icarus", what word does Williams use to make Icarus's drowning seem unimportant?
The correct answer is D. Unsignificantly
- In the “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” written by William Carlos Williams in 1960, the use of the word “unsignificantly” refers to the quite unnoticed splash of Icarus. This poem refers to the Greek tragedy of Icarus, that wearing wings made from wax and feathers flew too close to the sun, melting his wax drowned in the sea. William pictures Icarus drowning as unsignificantly, because the take away message, that this Greek tragedy gives, had not been internalized by the people of this time. This is that the teaching of this tragedy was ignored, this sense of power that is seen through Icarus flying too close to the sun is ignored. The people that William was treating as indifferent, were “flying” too close to the sun, and were not aware of their soon downfall.