Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus Analysis

“It’s sad that bad things happen for us to stop and look around,”-Megan Duke. Sometimes humans ignore the bad things in life hoping that it will all go away. Except not facing the problems will not make it all go away, it only makes life harder. One can be overcome with guilt for not taking action in a bad situation. Humans are selfish beings and often tend to care about one’s self more than others. In both the painting and the poem Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Brueghel and Williams use imagery to suggest that humans are oblivious to the pain of others. In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Pieter Brueghel portrays humans as insensitive and uncaring of the suffering of others. In the painting, Brueghel shows a fisherman fishing feet away from Icarus, but is not paying any attention to him (Brueghel). The fisherman is too concerned with himself to notice a man dying. He keeps fishing, and does not stop to acknowledge Icarus struggling. The fisherman does not notice him because he seems to be too busy with his own life to notice the pain in someone else’s. In the poem Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, William Carlos Williams shows humans as being selfish and self-concerned. Williams explains, “a farmer was ploughing a field….a splash quite unnoticed” (Williams). The farmer is too selfish to even pay attention and
William simply explains in the poem that there was “a splash quite unnoticed” (Williams). In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, it shows Icarus’ legs in the water along with the splash unnoticed by people that wasn’t far from it (Brueghel). This shows that both the poem and the painting Landscape of the Fall of Icarus was similar. They both elucidate the splash of Icarus being unnoticed, which means humans can be selfish and uncaring to others who might actually be in danger of some