What is most unusual about the structure of the poem? A It does not have a consistent rhyme scheme. B It is organized into five stanzas.

What do these descriptions suggest about Icarus’s experience? Up and up he soared; he beat his wings frantically so they would carry him higher. They suggest that he was doomed. People today may refer to someone “who flew too close to the sun” as a cautionary tale.

The sentence suggests that the people watching from below thought that Daedalus and Icarus were gods. It suggests that one theme of the myth is, “Don’t get above yourself and try to be like the gods.” Why did Icarus fly higher and higher into the sky? He was bewitched by a sense of freedom.

Answer: The actions of Daedalus and Icarus can be related to the idea of moderation in this myth because Daedalus warned Icarus about the dangers of flying too close to the Sun or the Ocean. Icarus disobeyed his father’s warnings and flew too close to the sun and died.

The moral lesson of the story Daedalus and Icarus is that you should always listen to what your elders tell you to do. The basic concept of the story Daedalus and Icarus is that hubris is a bad thing. It could be said that the subtext is that you should always heed the advice of your elders, particularly your parents.

Soon the glue melted and the young man plunged into the sea. Ever since that day, the sea where Icarus fell into was named Icarian Sea and the nearby island was named Icaria to honor the hero. Heartbroken, Daedalus fled to the island of Sicily in modern Italy.

By flying higher than anyone has before, Icarus becomes the hero he has been striving to be, who will be remembered for all time due to his accomplishments. His death only serves to heighten this fame. However, his survival takes away this glory by thrusting him back into a world where no one knows who he is.

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Icarus, in Greek mythology, son of the inventor Daedalus who perished by flying too near the Sun with waxen wings.

of the poem? The theme of the myth is listen to your elders. to gain knowledge.

Icarus and Daedalus attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that Daedalus constructed from feathers and wax. Daedalus warns Icarus first of complacency and then of hubris, instructing him to fly neither too low nor too high, lest the sea’s dampness clog his wings or the sun’s heat melt them.

a. flew and flutter are alliterative; the poet chose those words to emphasize the contrast between strong and weak flight b. precisely and point are alliterative; the poet chose those words to emphasize the point that Icarus was about to fall downward c.

What did the poet mean when he said Icarus “anticipated plummeting” (line 7)? Icarus knew he was going to fall. What does it mean to “flutter ignorantly / from petal to petal within some garden” (lines 12-13)? It means to live a boring life.

The poet means that Icarus succeeded because by flying to that point, he learned what freedom was. He achieved “precisely” the “wisdom” of understanding both freedom and mortality at the same time.