The painting, “The Landscape of the Fall of Icarus,” and the poem, “The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” are similar because they both depict the same scene of Icarus drowning and they also connect with the observer’s senses. Both display a farmer ploughing his field and a splash in the water where Icarus fell. It is symbolic that both the painting and the poem say the same thing, it shows that even when a person experiences a tragedy the world keeps moving forward and people keep doing their jobs. The painting and the poem are also similar because they can both connect with the senses of the observer. The observer can feel the heat coming from the sun, taste the sweat from the hard work outside, hear the splash Icarus made, smell the saltiness of the ocean, and see the way that everyone was…show more content… The poem describes more about Icarus than the painting, an example being, “sweating in the sun that melted the wings wax,” (The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus lines 13-15), while the painting is more detailed in the lives of the everyday people who are working hard at their jobs when Icarus falls, like the fisherman, a shepherd tending to his sheep, and sailors on their ship. For the painting an onlooker might assume the main focus of the painting is the farmer, that is until they read the title; on the other hand, for the poem the reader can assume Icarus falling is the main focus of the piece, without looking at the title. This is so the observer can understand what the painting and the poem mean. The painting focuses more on the lives of ordinary people, showing that in the midst of someone dieing, people continue with their lives as if nothing happened, while the poem focuses more on Icarus and what is happening to him. Not only are there visible differences between the painting and the poem, but there are also differences in the tone and mood between the two pieces of
