04-15-2007, 03:23 PM
I have now reached my true weakness poetry.
So I would really apreciate some help on the poem landscape with the fall of icarus. I have some ideas and i know the background of the poem, but i what I really need help with is rhyme and meter. Mainly the stressed unstressed. Any help or ideas appreciated thanks.
Here is the poem.
According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring
a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry
of the year was
awake tingling
near
the edge of the sea
concerned
with itself
sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax
unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning
So I would really apreciate some help on the poem landscape with the fall of icarus. I have some ideas and i know the background of the poem, but i what I really need help with is rhyme and meter. Mainly the stressed unstressed. Any help or ideas appreciated thanks.
Here is the poem.
According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring
a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry
of the year was
awake tingling
near
the edge of the sea
concerned
with itself
sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax
unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning