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In Greek mythology, the impetuous son of the inventor
Daedalus
. After the
labyrinth
be built for
King Minos
was 'solved' by
Theseus
,
Daedalus
was
forbidden
to leave the
island
of
Crete
. Being a wily inventor, he created wings from feathers and
wax
for he and his son to escape. Although
Icarus
was warned not to fly too close to the sun, he became bold and careless while flying, and the
wings
fell apart, sending him crashing to his
death
in the sea below.
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Inspired by
Musee des Beaux Arts
by
W.H. Auden
:
Quite cold already, as if he were
cast
,
The child sank through barren sky
Like an anchor.
The bobbing ship, quietly set adrift,
Abandoned its damp nets to marvel
At the fall:
What parody of
sacred birth
Now plummeted towards mother earth?
The melted tumult of wax and feathers
Must have appeared divine in hue
To slackjawed sailors,
But no
foamy triumph rising through sea
Nor
nymph-led rescue
awaited these wings
For final uplifting.
--December 2000
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