Question

Which statement is a likely interpretation of Williams's use of the word "unsignificantly" in his poem?

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

D. Icarus’s death shouldn’t be the main focus

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Answer 2

"Unsignificantly" in William Carlos Williams's poem "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is meant to indicate the relative prominence of the mythological event. Rather than portraying the fall of Icarus as the main focus of the painting, artist Pieter Brueghel places it in the background, a place of relative unimportance. The significance here is that the world continues on with mundane, everyday events even while extraordinary things occur. Williams uses the term "unsignificantly" to acknowledge the deliberate choice of depicting the death of Icarus in an mundane and rather unremarkable way.