Question

Pieter Brueghel's Landscape with the fall of Icarus and W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts" Both address the fall of Icarus. How are the two works alike?

Answer 1

The two works about the fall of Icarus are alike because they take focus away from Icarus by including many other ordinary elements, as in option B.

The fall of Icarus

Both "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" and "Musee des Beaux Arts" are artistic works based on the Greek myth concerning the fall of Icarus. One is a painting and the other is a poem, but still they are similar.

The two works are alike in the sense that they take focus away from Icarus by including many other ordinary elements. Both depict the farmer, the sailors, as well as other elements clearly. The purpose is precisely to show that, even though Icarus died, people kept on living their ordinary lives.

The complete question with the missing answer choices is the following:

Both Brueghel and Auden refer to the story of the fall of Icarus in their works. How are "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" and "Musee des Beaux Arts" alike?

• They take focus away from the water by balancing it with the sky.

• They take focus away from Icarus by including many other ordinary elements.

• They draw focus to Icarus by using his name and picture in the titles.

• They draw focus to the water by indicating that it is very dangerous.

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