Symbolism In Edward Field's 'Icarus'

“Icarus” By Edward Field aligns a myth into a contemporary setting with a literary analysis that reviews as a message to modern society to alter how taking shortcuts or denying potential greatness can result to a life of regret weighing upon your shoulders.

What happened to him? At the scene of an Icarus's publicizes death is where the transition took into effect and Icarus was reborn into a new lifestyle. Fields used the approach of symbolism to gradually get to how one man became two personalities. As society crowds around the water of where Icarus ‘drowned’ is the event place of his baptism as he goes about a new life. Icarus’s old curiosity led him away from all that he’s known and opened a door to a common placement in society. Fields continue to explain the death of Icarus through a police officer filing a report. The officer slides
Hicks in his basement tinkering with his hopes and sorrows. The flow of ‘Icarus’ by Edward Field is told in an order of life’s frequency. The enduring tone is filled with anticipation and then runs into a lack of such. The way the literary goes is given in a cycle similar to life, because it begins with eagerness and curiosity, to knowing your place in the world and in ways act with a sense of knowing what is black and white, and then as a person ages things tend to not work as well as they used to and become less interactive with who you used to be. Once Mr. Hicks adjoined the commonality of Suburbia he fell into the routine of his peers, but after awhile began to second-guess himself. He had imprisoned himself into a life he no longer wanted. He is dazed, as something so simple is so much more complex than he is now. Icarus falls faint to a standard life, which has been nowhere near to how heroic he once imagines his old one to be. Now he waits at each stop, each short rail, as he rides to the defeating commuting