"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", William Carlos Williams

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

According to Brueghel

when Icarus fell

it was spring

a farmer was ploughing

his field

the whole pageantry

of the year was

awake tingling

near

the edge of the sea

concerned

with itself

sweating in the sun

that melted

the wings’ wax

unsignificantly

off the coast

there was

a splash quite unnoticed

this was

Icarus drowning

From Collected Poems: 1939-1962, Volume II by William Carlos Williams, 

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Paisagem com a queda de Ícaro

Segundo Brueghel

quando Ícaro caiu

era primavera

um fazendeiro arava

seu campo

com toda pompa

da estação

que despertava intensa

bem perto

à beira-mar

absorto

em si mesmo

suando ao sol

que derretia

a cera das asas

inexpressivo

próximo à costa

houve

um baque imperceptível

era Ìcaro

que se afogava