This is a close reading aka analysis of the poem "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by William Carlos Williams.

The poem "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", by William Carlos Williams, portrays in writing the painting by Brueghel. The piece depicts the Greek myth of the tragedy of Icarus, a boy who flew too close to the sun with wax wings and fell into the sea to his death. The poem has no set rhyme scheme or meter, an example of one of Williams' many free verse poems. After reading the poem many times, …

…and bottom of the poem, and tying that with the sense of falling, I found a connection to Icarus' accident. The first stanza contains the words "Icarus fell" symbolizing Icarus being up high in the sky and having his wings melted off. As the poem continues down it symbolizes Icarus falling down to the ocean until finally the poem reaches the end with "Icarus drowning", which is the end of both the poem and Icarus.