Week 10 II

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Icarus is the son of Daedalus. His father makes him wings of feathers and wax so he can escape Crete, but he is warned not to fly to close to the sun. He does anyways, and the wax melts and he loses his wings. He falls into the Mediterranean and drowns. Musee de Beaux Arts is a poem about Breughel's painting, "The Fall of Icarus". It is about how miraculous things happen all around us, but how we just turn are heads away, or ignore it. Icarus falls out of the sky, like an angel, but in the painting now one is paying attention. There is a plough man looking the other way, and ship sailing calmly on.