Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is a poem by one of the foremost figures of 20th-century American poetry, William Carlos Williams, first published in Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems in 1962. The poem is a work of ekphrasis—writing about a piece of visual art—and is part of a cycle of 10 poems inspired by the paintings of 16th-century artist Pieter Bruegel (or Brueghel) the Elder. Both Bruegel's painting and this poem depict the death of Icarus, the mythological figure who died after flying too close to the sun, in a rather unusual way: in both works, Icarus's death—caused by a fall from the sky after the wax holding his artificial wings together melted—is hardly a blip on the radar of the nearby townspeople, whose attention is turned instead toward the rhythms of daily life. Tragedy is thus presented as a question of perspective, something that depends on how close one is (literally and emotionally) to the event in question.

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The feeling the author creates by ending the story with this question is: eeriness and uneasiness.

Explanation:

In "Nighttime in Texas," the neighborhood where Carlos lives has been afflicted by a strange trend. Most of the residents have suddenly started sleepwalking. Dave, the main character, finds out about it when he travels to visit Carlos for spring break. However, he is revealed the fact in the most strange manner.

He arrives at Carlos' at around midnight, unaware of the curfew imposed by the police due to the strange happenings. Carlos does not seem to be home. Out of the blue, Patricia appears. She seems friendly and kind at first, and she is the one who tells Dave about it all. All of a sudden, Carlos also appears, driving his car and claiming he had had a flat tire and so on. He then says he and Patricia are in love - it is worth noticing that Patricia is in her nightgown and slippers. Right before Carlos showed up, once he had heard the story, Dave was already scared:

“Pretty weird, right?” Patricia said. Dave took a moment to form a response.“Yeah, yeah,” he finally managed. “I mean, that’s really crazy. I’ve never heard of anything like that!” After a pause, he continued, “So do you think Carlos—I mean, do you think he’s one of the . . . afflicted?”

Now that his friend has appeared and confirmed the whole thing, asking him the eerie question "You're not scared of the dark, are you?", Dave most likely feels even more afraid. If Patricia wasn't lying, are they both sleepwalking now? If they are - and if they are able to act as if they are not -, what are they capable of doing? Do they hurt people? Can they hurt Dave? Will Dave begin to sleepwalk as well? The final question leaves us feeling uneasy .

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