Question

Look at the last stanza in “Icarus’s Flight.” What tone is conveyed here, and how does the poet achieve it?

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The tone being conveyed is a laudatory tone.

2. The poet achieved it by asking a rhetorical question and providing the answer.

Explanation:

1. The tone being conveyed in the last stanza of the poem was a laudatory one. This means that the poet was praising the boy Icarus for trying the boundaries of his intellect.

2. To achieve this, the poet asked a rhetorical question;

Should it matter

that neither shepherd nor farmer with his plow

watched him fall?

He answered the question by saying that 'he now had the answer'. So,  even though the boy eventually fell, he had explored the heights of his freedom and had satisfied his curiosity.