1. The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus
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2. 1. What is the lesson or message behind the myth?
After reading the myth, respond to the following question on the back of the text:
1. What is the lesson or message behind the myth?
Text mark or underline evidence from the selection to support your response.
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3. Standard 7
Analyze various accounts of a subject or scene told in different mediums
Determine which details are emphasized in each account
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4. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Breughel, late 1500s

5. Answer these questions on a seperate sheet of paper
Answer these questions on a seperate sheet of paper. Be sure to use complete sentences as you answer every part.
When you first looked at the painting, what was the first thing you noticed? How long did it take you to notice Icarus’ legs in the bottom right-hand corner?
How would you describe the tone of the painting? Give two examples from the scene that help support your conclusion.
What viewpoint did Breughel give to the painting? By this, I mean where does the artist have us standing as we look at the scene? What’s interesting about this choice?
Although the death of Icarus is the critical piece of this narrative scene, this is not a painting about death. What is Breughel’s message to the viewer?
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6. Musee des Beaux Arts (Museum of Fine Arts)
About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree
In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
– W. H. Auden, 1940
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7. Continuing on your paper, answer the following questions
Continuing on your paper, answer the following questions. Be sure to use complete sentence when answering every part.
Auden uses free verse, meaning it does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other noticeable formula. Auden does, though, occasionally rhyme some of his lines. Identify at least three of Auden’s rhyming pairs of words and explain why you think he chose to join those specific lines.
In the last stanza, Auden specifically refers to the Breughel painting. He says that “everything turns away” from the disaster. List three people/things in the painting that have turned their backs on the drowning teenager.
Both Breughel and Auden seem to be suggesting that people notice, but are indifferent to the suffering of others. Do you agree with this idea or not? Give two concrete examples from your life of studies to support your stance.
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