2 Responses to “Icarus”

1. kbfenner on August 13th, 2009 3:25 pm

   ***
   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

2. Robert Ariail on August 14th, 2009 4:36 pm

   This portion of Auden’s poem on Breughel’s Icarus is most appropriate. The plowman and the ship are like the residents of South Carolina going about their business without much regard for the discredited Governor - their lives go on even as Sanford’s (political) life is at an end.Thanks for sharing that with us.

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